Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky, everyone knows Widow Sarah Collett, and everyone calls her "Aunt." She is a kindly, grey-haired woman of 75 who has so many kinfolks in town that she can claim to be the grandmother, great-aunt, or at least a cousin of every boy and girl in the local one-room school. It was only natural that, with all her relatives, Aunt Sarah should be worried about the school...
Blue Hole parents petitioned state officials in vain for a new school. The superintendent said that their problem was "a local affair" and referred them to the county board. The county said that it could not build a new school because there was no land available with a clear title, and the old site on the mountainside was too dangerous. Then, one night, a great storm blew up. Next morning the old schoolhouse was a pile of lumber at the bottom of the creek, and there was still no prospect...
Nickname. In Liverpool, England, a local bank honored a check made out to "NWGBLGGHRHBSL 1," after learning that the leters stood for North West Gas Board, Liverpool Group, Group Headquarters, Radiant House, Bold Street, Liverpool...
...time is easygoing 1909, but even Danny senses that the going is hard for his folks. Grandfather Tom O'Flaherty is in his 70s and can hold his own only at the local booze parlor. Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that's the way you have to treat a man." Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills...
...display of white handkerchiefs notwithstanding, more motives than revenge made people happy over the outcome of Saturday's game. The Class of 1954 realized its ambition of seeing Yale beaten and could graduate content. Other Harvard supporters could take the win over Yale as final proof that local football has regained its equilibrium...