Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local TV viewers were startled when McCarthy, in a strange reversal of tactics, appealed to the authority of Bender--"an individual who holds a position much higher than Mr. Cohn or Mr. Carr...
...happened that your offices in New York had been swept away by some fervid desire to drain the lifeblood from local citizens and had established a blood-donor center on the main floor. Unwittingly, I entered the building and presented myself at what seemed to be a reception desk. The lady behind the desk was overjoyed to see me, and I thought that the public-relations staff of the magazine had been particularly diligent in its indoctrination. I was asked my name, my habitat, some personal history and my blood type. This again was ascribed by me to be part...
Early in the trial the defendants got a major shock when the U.S. called the Rev. Obadiah Jones as a prosecution witness. The Rev. Mr. Jones, Negro pastor of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, was local chairman of the Communist Civil Rights Congress, and such a notorious Communist that the Baptist Ministerial Alliance had expelled him in 1953. Quietly, he testified that he had joined the party in 1946 because the FBI had asked...
...past nine years, Mrs. Royale's daily ride has become something of a legend, and local citizens are willing to bet that it is the longest daily school-bus ride anywhere in the nation. Each morning Mrs. Royale heads first for nearby Tiger. There she picks up 15 pupils and sets out for Oracle for 15 more. She drives over mountain roads and flat, paved highways, stops at junctions along the way for the boys and girls who are waiting. By the time she gets them to Florence (where the nearest high school is located), she has covered...
Practical Politics. In Elba, Ala., Farmer Dewey Adams broke into a polling place where votes cast in a local primary were being counted, chased away election officials with an ax, set fire to 95 ballots, after his arrest explained: "I didn't like the way the election was being...