Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial adviser since the early '30s. Making an immediate break for his cabin, Ike shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch, hung their Chicago-type shoulder holsters on their hips cowboy-style...
...prominent Washington bachelors were vacationing at the Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla, Calif, last week, and a local reporter asked one of them to give his opinion of the other. Said FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in one of his extremely rare personal endorsements: "Senator Joe McCarthy is an exmarine. He was an amateur boxer. He's Irish. Combine those, and you're going to have a vigorous individual who is not going to be pushed around...
...League is the world's biggest baseball organization. It was started in Williamsport in 1939 by Businessman Carl E. Stotz, 43, who decided that organized baseball was just the tonic for lads too small or too young to get into their big brothers' games. Rallying support from local businessmen, Stotz soon had a three-team league-with regulation uniforms, coaches and managers-going full blast...
Growing Pains. In going big time, the Little League has acquired both troubles and critics. Some physical educators, and many a parent whose boy failed to make a team, sincerely believe the whole movement has degenerated into an unseemly exploitation of a relatively few talented boys. The accused: local commercial sponsors from jewelry stores and filling stations to undertaking parlors, rabid fathers and coaches trying vicariously to realize their own frustrated ambitions, mobs of partisan fans to whom winning means more than the boys' welfare or the game. Counters Pete McGovern: "The kids, on their own, can take...
Conquered People. "It would be sheer folly to place at their disposal a health service such as we know it in Germany; and so-no inoculations and other preventive measures for the natives! . . . The local population must be given no facilities for higher education . . . Notices in the Ukrainian language 'Beware of the Trains' are superfluous; what on earth does it matter if one or two more locals get run over by the trains...