Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pain and contempt it had brought him in the Apennine village of Contrada, where he was born 60 years ago. Reared in a two-room hovel swarming with flies, brothers and sisters, all as dirty and hungry as himself, he had spent his childhood working long hours in the local wheatfields for a few pennies a day, resenting the shouts of harsh masters and dreaming of a better life. As soon as he was old enough, he fled to seek his fortune in Canada...
...substance, with a real pearl stickpin in his cravat. He built a luxurious villa outside the village, and proceeded to show his contempt for the Contradese in a perverse display of ostentation and charity. He refused to enter the village but gave generously to the local church, and twice each year he would drive his blooded Arab horse around the outskirts to the back door of a house in which some Contradese girl cried her heart out because her family lacked money for a dowry. Contradese parents soon learned to come running when they heard the crack of Silvio...
...dedicated Monarchist, set himself to bait the sulky showoff, Silvio, an ardent Demo-Christian, at every turn. When Silvio planted cherry trees on the borders of his property, Carmine made him cut them down because they overhung the village highway. When Silvio built himself a tomb in the local churchyard, Carmine complained that its steps were on public property. "Material wealth can never replace brains," he gloated when the steps were ordered removed...
...American Newspaper Guild last week shut down a Seattle newspaper for the third time. But the strike against the prosperous, conservative Seattle Times (circ. 212,608) was like nothing that Seattle newsmen had ever seen before. By local standards, it was more of a tea party than a labor dispute...
Omaha reacted to the broadcast with a flood of indignant, civic-minded letters and phone calls. (There were also three threatening messages to Loughnane, which encouraged him to leave town for a brief vacation.) Local officials were embarrassed. Omaha's mayor, Glenn Cunningham, took to the air himself to insist that "Omaha is so clean you could eat off it as you would a tablecloth." But though public protests continued, by last week the gambling joints were still going full blast...