Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time guards threw open the White House gates at 9 a.m.. a crowd of 500 was waiting to get in. President Eisenhower had revived a local tradition, the Easter Monday egg roll on the White House lawn, started in 1877 by Rutherford Hayes and abandoned twelve years ago by Franklin Roosevelt. The Eisenhowers really didn't know what to expect, but the gardeners began a week in advance preparing for the worst, installing storm fences, comfort stations and drinking fountains...
...thinning sugar beets and hand-milking a string of 30 cows morning and night. When he was 14, his father was called away on a Mormon mission; Ezra was left to run the family farm for two years. A leader in studies and sports at local Mormon schools, Ezra entered Utah State Agricultural College and met Flora Amussen, a tennis-playing coed considered "most popular girl in town." While the courtship was still young, the Mormon Church stepped in: Benson was picked as a missionary to England. As is expected of any young Latter-day Saint, Benson answered the call...
...follow up their victory. Li Mi licked his wounds, lived off the land, extended his control over east Burma (see map). The weak Burmese government-which had won its independence only five years before from the British-was too busy fighting Karen rebels and two different camps of local Communists to deal with Li Mi's men. Growing stronger, Li Mi extended his activities west of the Salween River...
...group of local Dixieland musicians will also be present next Tuesday evening, and will present a concert after the forum...
...chief backer, George A. Plimpton, headed the Lampoon four years ago, its managing editor, Thomas Guinzburg, held the same position at the Yalie Daily in 1950, while Peter Matthiessen, the fiction editor, recently taught creative writing in New Haven. Harold Humes and Thomas Spang of the business staff are local products, and Train, noted for his verse, cartoons, and stories in the 1950-51 Lampoon, is listed as the Business Manager of the Review. In short, the new publication is, as the Yalies say, "shoe...