Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precluded when a nation resorts to force as the arbiter of human difficulty. Generally it gets in deeper and deeper, and there is no limit except the limitations imposed by force itself. But he could not conceive of an atomic weapon being used as a police weapon, and the local situations he was talking about would be police actions. Police are to protect and stop trouble, not just to cause destruction...
...campaign, now weighed an imposing 320 lbs. ("In campaigns now," he explained, "you don't make speeches, you just eat canapés"), and nowhere in Washington could he find a dress suit to wear to the President's congressional reception. After trying all the local tailors, resourceful Representative Tumulty hurried back to Jersey City to see a tailor he knew. While he was waiting for alterations, a photographer showed up, and Tumulty posed (see cut) for the latest published photograph of a politician in underpants.* After all, said Tumulty, "if Marilyn Monroe...
...Local record dealers predicted yesterday that prices on long playing records will gradually return to normal during the next three months, though manufactures continued to announce permanent price cuts as high as 40 percent...
...Local dealers also reported a decline in quality apparently accompanied the price cuts. There have been frequent complaints about scratches and imperfect cuttings, they said...
...read today's account of Mr. Philbrick about the famine in China one would think the flood of the Yangtze River but a rumor. The Chinese Communists have "allegedly lost crops due to a flood." This flood was mentioned in most of the local papers in August of last year as the worst in China's history for the Yangtze River. The last flood of that river, less severe than this one, drowned 140,000 persons and left 10 million homeless. The famine that followed in its wake brought death by starvation to 52 million Chinese men, women, and children...