Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universality that the courthouse designers reached for in the statues is expressed in an abhorrence of statues by other peoples. Among these are the Mohammedans, whose earliest success in Arabia came by overthrowing local idols and thereby calling attention to the universal God. Eastern Christianity was ripped by two great waves of iconoclasm scarcely less thorough than Mohammed's, and resting on the belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians...
...bandits had planned carefully. During the hold-up one said: "We've been casing this joint for six months." They knew the bank employees' names and faces. They also knew that the vaults contained an extra $200,000 that day to meet local payrolls. In every way, the bandits were much better prepared than the Manhattan Co.'s 35 branch banks in Queens, three of which were recently robbed. Until this month, none of the 35 had any armed guards or protective alarms...
Leading the ticket was Morris B. Sachs, South Side garment merchant and local TV impresario (Sacks' Amateur Hour), who ran for city treasurer. In the Democratic primary, Morris Sachs went down to defeat with outgoing Mayor Martin Kennelly, wept in Kennelly's arms while cameras recorded his sorrow (TIME, March 7). Sad Sachs dried his tears when he was offered a place on the organization's ticket. In campaign speeches he recalled fondly: "I sold Dick Daley's mother the first pair of long pants for Dick. Without me, where would he be?" His reward...
...Time for Obits. From far and wide next day the tributes poured in. Great contemporaries, heads of state, ancient enemies, old colleagues, distant admirers, journalists, historians, soldiers, statesmen and plain men in the street took to their typewriters, their telegraph pads, their microphones, their notepaper or simply the local pub to heap praise on a career that has seldom been matched...
Approximately every four years the College's political clubs shake themselves from their lethargy to launch wild attacks on each other. After a few weeks the effort seems to overcome them and they quickly slip back into inactivity. While political debates continue in dormitory rooms and newspapers, local partisan groups ignore each other, their members thoroughly engrossed in agreeing with themselves...