Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
...powerful warning in 1935 of the Nazis' designs on Europe ("This Is the House That Diplomacy Built"); a spoof of the British in 1936 over rumors about the romance between King Edward VIII and Wally Simpson. Some of his most popular cartoons are about "Rat Alley," where local crooks and dishonest politicians roam. Once a judge sentenced him to jail when Fitz blasted him in a Rat Alley cartoon. The Missouri supreme court threw out the case...
...their usual tones of authority, the sports-page experts picked the Boston Braves, seventh last year, for another second-division finish in the National League race this year. But when the Braves were moved to Milwaukee (TIME, March 30), they suddenly found that they were local celebrities instead of a Boston institution ranking with but after Fanueil Hall. The Milwaukee fans showered them with cheers and presents, and began to buy more ballpark tickets than any other fans in the league...
Whores or Godmothers. Up and down Germany, he travels in his station wagon, and in each town the pattern is the same. With from one to three assistants, he begins by pasting up posters, tacking streamers to buildings, furnishing the local movie house with slides advertising his talks. Then he interviews city officials for a briefing on local problems, and prepares a set of three public speeches-one on religion, one on social and political affairs, a third on sex and morals...
Father Leppich winds up his public speeches at about 10 p.m., then makes for the nearest Roman Catholic church to hear confessions. Often people of other faiths and of none, including Communists, turn up along with the Catholics. He finishes in the early dawn, then retires to the local parish house, where he sleeps briefly, nibbles at fruit, vegetables and milk, and prays when he has a free moment. "As a good Jesuit, I need three hours of prayer daily," he says...