Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...details include running the Teletype machine, proofreading copy ("including correcting my spelling," adds Collins) and taking dictation, sometimes at a marathon pace amounting to 35,000 words on a cover story. One of her longest dictation stretches was on Dday, 1944, when correspondents were alerted to report local reaction. It was an all-day running story, with Mary sitting in the office taking the copy on the phone-"one of the few times when life in a news bureau was like life on a newspaper in the movies...
...French dragged their feet on the U.S. plan for training local troops. They did not even want General James...
...books, and soon. ¶On his own campaign plans: he likes to go and visit, and he expects to move around the country, to talk about his legislative program. But, Ike reiterated, he does not intend to go out and, as a barnstormer, participate in a local election contest; that is not his business...
...built a model town seven miles northeast of Washington at a cost of $14 million. Because its 900 dwelling units covered a 2OO-acre tract surrounded by 3,100 acres of Maryland countryside, the town was named Greenbelt. Greenbelt's residents, including Abraham Chasanow, set about electing a local government, operating an consumer co-op to run the town's stores, organizing a health insurance plan and a recreation center...
...assorted committees. Lawyer Chasanow also served on the draft board, the Health Association, the Citizens' Association. He took part in the P.T.A., the Lions, the Jewish Community Center. He did legal work for the town's 1,000-unit expansion in 1941 and contributed to the local newspaper, the Cooperator, of which his wife Helen was once church editor. The Chasanows also raised four children...