Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This answer, however, is insulting in the extreme to the intelligence of the local youths. If the Yard does indeed accentuate an uncontrollable bent for revelry on the green, these young men will find their way to the open pleasure portals on Quincy and Dunster Streets. Since, too, consumption of various tonics often stimulates these merrymakers in their excesses, it is doubtful that the Cambridge bucks are motivated before midnight in any event...
...bills, enforced income-tax collections, outlawed the Communist Party, negotiated a favorable overhaul of treaty relations with the U.S. over the great canal that bisects Panama. Who wanted to assassinate him? If the Communists had engineered it, the job must have been carefully organized from outside; Panama's local Reds were not up to such a slick, professional gang-style killing...
When the San Francisco Board of Education arbitrarily decreed that no teacher might work for or against any candidate for any local office (TIME, Jan. 3), it might have expected trouble. But it could hardly have anticipated the sort of embarrassment it suffered last week. Its challenger: conscientious Mary K. Ryan, president of the Teachers' Association of San Francisco and for 30 years one of the most respected teachers in the city...
Last month workmen in Borgo San Sepolcro were remodeling a building that was, in Piero's time, the church of Sant' Agostino, but has since been turned into a movie theater and the home of the local symphony. While repairing a wall in what was once the apse, a workman touched a loose piece of plaster (spread on by Franciscan nuns who took over the church in the 16th century); it broke away under his hand. Beneath the plaster was a life-sized painting of a haloed young man, fair-haired with wide, topaz eyes. One look...
...International Harvester, a key fortress of the Red-led Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers union has been the Rock Island (Ill.) Local 109, with more than 3,000 workers employed at the Farmall tractor works. Two years ago, Local 109 leaders had such a firm grip on the rank and file that the C.I.O. United Auto Workers withdrew an application for an NLRB election for fear of being trounced. Last week the U.A.W. went into a second NLRB election with no intention of quitting...