Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the Itakuras dug in vain. The local villagers thought that the presence of the Itakuras was bad for tourist business, and sneered at them: "You are fools; why don't you give up?" The Itakuras...
Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 77, finishing up a 16-day vacation ("It was very nice, but too short") at the Black Forest resort of Buehlerhöhe, got an enthusiastic send-off from the chief local physician, who praised his "superlative constitution and distinguished heart...
...Museum will show off a new acquisition that any museum in the world would be proud of: the Mary Cassatt painting opposite. The picture lends great distinction to a collection only 14 years in the making. Using the half-million-dollar estate willed by the widow of a local newspaper publisher, Roland P. Murdock, the museum has already bought 113 works of American art. The Cassatt is the best of this year's seven purchases...
Those without local connections searched in vain for the wide open parties they had known back at Colgate. There, a visitor to the school was, by definition, a welcome guest at the large fraternity parties where the door was never locked and people staggered in and out. If, before the game they had seen the commons rooms, it was there that they often expected a post-game house party. And after all, hadn't that fellow in the flannel suit said that you might call a House sort of a big fraternity. It made sense...
...club, a stripling organization, takes up the engaging business of steadily dissenting from most widely held opinions. These conservative left-wingers pass ringing resolutions, hold sparsely attended forums condemning the Administration, and generally have no effect on the political climate. There is, in fact, little concern with any but local politics, and the Young Republicans hold more dances than debates...