Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilgrimage to Concord and local displays today will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...canal banks, British spotter planes droned last week, alert for Egyptian concentrations. Big, Sunderland flying boats rumbled in from Malta with 600 commandos to beef up the 80,000 British troops already crammed into Britain's Middle East bastion. All home leaves were canceled; British soldiers took over local water and power plants and set up checkpoints flanked by machine-gun nests, sandbags and barbed wire...
...through the countryside, hand-holding beside a lake, a visit to Dublin's Royal Theater and the prince's victory (his 102nd win as a jockey) in the last race at the Kilbeggan Meeting. While the cheering track crowd shouted, "Good old Alec McCann" (Aly's local nickname), Gene burbled, "Cheri, you were wonderful." The Kilcullen villagers watched the holidaying couple good-humoredly, especially after the prince donated ?100 to help build a new school. Said one: "He didn't give a cent when he had Rita up here. It's a sign-you would...
...gala atmosphere was certainly evident on Hains Point. There weren't 200,000, but there were about 10,000 spectators, and the fact that many of them knew very little about rowing seemed to make no difference. Those who weren't local inhabitants on an excursion to satisfy their curiosity were Princeton men, decked out in orange pants or yellow coats and whooping it up around the Princeton tent. (There was no Harvard tent at all.) One factor that the W.R.A. had not foreseen was the tide. In the morning the river rose and rose and finally filled...
...This is the first I have heard of my being considered," he said last night. "The first I knew of the whole thing was when I saw it in a local newspaper this afternoon...