Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French frontiers, customs officers waved motorists past without checking passports or luggage. In the coal fields, 173,000 miners downed tools. Southwestern winegrowers seized the opportunity to demonstrate against the government's refusal to buy up surplus wine. Led by their local mayors, 100,000 farmers blocked the highways with wine barrels, while priests tolled the church bells in ecclesiastical approval. There had been nothing quite like it since the Popular Front days...
Back in the Mussolini era, Carlo Corbisiero, part-time barber, brawler and bully boy of the village of Marzano di Nola, near Naples, was pretty proud of his nickname-"Crackshot." For years the local carabinieri had tried to nail him for bootlegging, petty theft and antiFascism, without success. Then one day in 1934, word reached the village that Crackshot Carlo was wanted on a highway robbery and murder rap. Carlo left his dark-eyed mistress and their two illegitimate children behind and took to the hills. Two weeks later he decided to give himself up for trial. "I am innocent...
About 200 young men and women over 18 are sent to Brandeis each summer by their parents or by their local congregations (cost: $200 each). This year a new, younger group (from 13 to 18) has been added, known as the Alonim (Little Oaks). But Brandeis has found its biggest success with the older oaks, in the short retreats for adults started last summer...
...drum up donations, Mrs. Bingham's workers have toured 64 of the state's 120 counties, making speeches, visiting local notables, persuading newspapers to give the campaign special publicity. They have persuaded 36 organizations from the C.I.O. and the United Daughters of the Confederacy to the Home-owned Grocers' Association to back them. Already they have received promises of bookmobiles from every sort of group from a truck drivers' local to the Honorable order of Kentucky Colonels. According to the project's heads, a donor can offer a whole bookmobile ($3,000) or just some...
...Mass., Lincoln has always tried to do what he thought was good for the farmer. After graduating from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1916, he became Connecticut's first county agricultural agent, later took a job in Ohio as a bank agricultural agent; in 1920 the group of local and county farm cooperatives which had banded together the previous year as the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation asked Lincoln to become its executive secretary. He expanded the federation to 59,313 members with 230 co-op service stores, where the farmers bought $36 million worth of goods a year...