Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long as they are kept within reasonable bounds. When a glib, promise-'em-everything, ex-cotton salesman named Edward Peirce (pronounced purse) was elected mayor 20 months ago, New Bedford was undisturbed-even though it was fairly obvious that he expected to "get his take" from the local gamblers...
...week's end, acting with the militancy the local settlers have long demanded, the British Colonial Office 1) sealed off Central Kenya, including the three Kikuyu tribal reserves, from the rest of the colony; 2) created "special areas" in three sections of the Great Rift Valley, where anyone moving about may be shot at sight; 3) sent in General Sir George Erskine, 53, a famed terrorist-buster who last left his angry mark upon Egyptian Ismailia (TIME, Feb. 4,1952), to clean up the mess...
Boston's Watch & Ward Society, longtime guardian of local morals, threw a big birthday party for itself in old Park Street Church after 75 busy years of rescuing fallen women, arranging for the banning of dirty books, and-its more recent concern-keeping police posted on gamblers and bookmakers. New Hampshire Republican Senator Charles Tobey, in fine oratorical voice, showed up to deliver a fiery speech against...
...Dean Taeusch could see, Peters lived up fully to his credentials. His Western civilization lectures were so polished that students flocked to hear them. He spoke at the Wooster Kiwanis Club and dazzled the local chapter of the American Association of University Women. He entertained graciously, and his personal library was rated excellent. An accomplished organist (he happened to mention, in passing, that he had a music degree from the University of Durham, England), he played during several services in the college chapel. Since he also let it be known that he had studied at St. Aidan's (Theological...
...Cambridge Quartet include Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; William Hess, tenor; Paul Matthen, bass. All except Mr. Hess are local musicians and have frequently appeared as soloists in Boston. A mediumsized audience responded to the group's superb artistry as well as to its evident enthusiasm in performance by one of the warmest ovations I have witnessed this season in Sanders Theatre...