Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurry, George Craig landed running, has been in a hurry ever since. An administrator by instinct, he proposed sweeping reorganization: a new department of health, a new department of corrections, a cabinet to centralize authority in the governor's office. Many of his recommendations would have abolished old local political boards...
Craig came out of the Army in 1945 a lieutenant colonel, marched double time into American Legion politics. As a member of his local post, he went to Indianapolis for the state convention in 1946, and was picked by the Indiana Legion kingmakers, notably Indianapolis Publicity Man Elmer ("Little Doc") Sherwood, to be state vice commander. From that level Craig rocketed to the peak of Legion politics...
...bert. In the next three years he left town several times, only to return with news of even greater triumphs. At shooting matches in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London and Toronto, he said, he had won all sorts of prizes, spreading his talents to include not only rifles but pistols. The local girls flung themselves at his feet, and after a time, Roger married one of the richest of them and moved to the bigger town of Bernay. There the local shooting club welcomed him with open arms and were only slightly put out when Roger missed the target completely...
...defense of the whole Pacific. Thailand's Premier Phibun Songgram, pointing out nervously that 20,000 "Free Thai" troops were mobilized across the Chinese border, wanted the U.S. to put troops right in Thailand where everybody could see them. The Communist threat, Dulles replied, is not a local problem but a coordinated assault on the free world by a unified power controlling 800 million people. No nation could keep enough power within its borders to combat that concerted power...
...this is really too much honor . . ." But the mayor and all the citizens of Bernay who gathered in the town hall on that broiling day of August 1948 laughed aside the protest with proud, tolerant smiles. Too much honor? For Roger Touchard, the champion marksman of two continents, the local boy who had made good? Too much? "Ah, tell me, Touchard," said one of the local dignitaries, "what would you say to a red ribbon in your coat, the Cross of the Legion of Honor? What would you say to that, eh?" Roger merely gasped...