Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-interest" about it than the rest of the world can stomach . . . British Socialists and Tories alike regret the American failure to base its policy on a moral purpose which "needs to be wider and last longer than an alliance based upon direct, obvious self-interest in a transitory local situation." Immediately after the war, the Americans were far more determined than we were to destroy Germany; they were ready far more quickly than we were to rearm Germany. After the war, the Americans took the initiative in claiming that Japan should never again be allowed to have an army...
...Columbia, Tenn. country club which were never shown to have been brought into the state from outside. Said Justice Robert Jackson, delivering the majority opinion: "If this is not substituting federal for state enforcement, it is difficult to know how it could be accomplished. A more local and detailed act of enforcement is hardly conceivable...
...Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, abetted by 500 fellow members and allied union men from Harry Bridges' Communist-dominated International Longshoremen's Union. The Bridges gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners to sign on members of their union (in defiance of local custom), were ready for a major dockside clash. Armed with clubs, pipes, knives and hammers, Bridges' men waited in tense silence, broken only by the eerie chant of their leaders: "Stay loose, men. I say, stay loose. Don't get tight...
Four years ago Baker Bedrich Cech's daughter had slipped out of the country alone to marry an American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling...
...great delusion began innocently enough in 1691 in the little town of Salem Village along Massachusetts' north shore. To escape the gloom of a dreary New England winter, the young girls of the neighborhood began to gather in the evening at the home of the local minister, the Reverend Samuel Parris, who had several children of his own. The chief object of their attentions was the Reverend's servant, an aged West Indian Negro woman named Tituba. To those impressionable children from austere Puritan households, Tituba told romantic stories of the colorful land of her birth. All through the winter...