Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning Douglas MacArthur and his wife motored to MacArthur Park for the dedication of a war memorial that includes a statue of the general and a pool containing replicas of the islands he conquered in the Pacific. He was pleased and genial, but when a local architect rushed up to him at the dedication ceremonies and burbled, "I'm going to wish you a happy birthday as I want you to wish me one, because today is my birthday, too." General MacArthur looked at him, through him and away from...
Since they begin saleswork almost directly, business board competitors immediately become a part of the $100,000 fiscal operation which transpires every year behind the red doors on Plympton Street. They deal with national as well as local advertising, and are taught the mechanics of display...
Although education is traditionally the province of state and local government, the financial resources of local school districts and poorer states are simply not adequate to meet the present crisis. Under normal financing methods, the states and communities together could supply only about half of the necessary amount--leaving a gap of billions of dollars...
...number of local girls attended the affair, and as Eze describes it. "One of them drank so much that she went into the ladies' room and went to sleep right there. The others forgot about her until much later when they returned to the Hall about two o'clock yelling for 'Peggy! Peggy!" Eze and his friends still call the party the "Peggy" affair...
...statement: "If Harvard wins as many games this year as it did last year, I will be very happy." Since the Crimson in 1953-54 compiled the very mediocre mark of 9-16, finishing in last place in the Ivy League for the third straight season, the outlook for local basketball seemed very discouraging in early December...