Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camp plan is carried on in conjunction with P.B.H.'s general program of work with local settlement houses...
...attitude of the CRIMSON, and of Prof. Holcombe, that in listening to such men Harvard is waging an heroic defense of civil liberties is perhaps one of the most frightening indications of the spread of fear in America to appear on the local scene. Hugh C. MacDougall...
...entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager bank account of some ?450, most of which he spent on a local music-hall dancer...
...This morning about 9 o'clock, young men and women carrying rice, vegetables and baskets came into the market at Thanthuong. They mingled with the local crowd. We thought they were peasants from a nearby village having something to sell. As we knew later, all were Communist guerrillas wearing peasants' clothes. The 'women' were young Communist soldiers carrying hand grenades under their coats instead of breasts. A few of these visitors started a dispute with a woman about the price of a chicken. It was a trick to divert our attention while others were encircling...
...spent the next three months on a front-door tour of Europe, in a triumphal progress of cheering crowds and hospitable crowned heads. Roosevelt surprised Europeans with his encyclopedic familiarity with their history and customs, although some local peculiarities startled him. In Rome, at a royal Italian dinner party, he found that his hat was not taken until after he had escorted the Queen to the table. In Vienna, at the end of a similar affair, T.R. wrote: "The Emperor and all the others proceeded to rinse their mouths, and then empty them into the finger bowls." (Groping for precedents...