Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marie A'Hearn, a local high school teacher, claimed that it was logical for a group to represent teachers only, "since they have different problems from administrators." What benefits teachers benefits education, she charged, and then claimed that the American Federation of Teachers offers legal assistance and contacts ordinarily unavailable...
Only one of the staff of the night watchmen openly admits having made a serious error while on the job. Joseph Brannan, who is stationed at Langdell Hall in the Law School confesses that one night he saw what he took to a local vandal climbing in through a first-floor window. It was too late to rectify his mistake when, having run his man down, he discovered him to be a middle-aged, still athletic, professor...
...Behrman as "a character who, if he did not exist, could not be imagined," had a headline-making spat with his wife June in Beverly Hills. June walked out. Figuring that she had gone home to mother. Oscar tried to phone her there, was told by the local operator that the line was busy and that he would have to wait half an hour. Cried Oscar: "In half an hour I'll be dead!" Said the operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help you." "Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that...
...guide provided by Rio Grande's Mayor Adalberto Cuevas, the young archeologists tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name...
Last year Linderman won the title of All-Around Cowboy champion for the third time. His winnings reflect the postwar rise of rodeo from a sporadic local show to a nationwide (Boston to San Francisco) sport witnessed by some 20 million people last year at nearly 600 rodeos. In his 14-year career, Linderman has also collected some spectacular bruises, e.g., a fractured skull at Pueblo, Colo. (1943), a broken neck and back at Deadwood, S. Dak. (1946), not to mention a broken hand in New York City, and a broken leg at Lewistown, Mont...