Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope of turning the flow inward and damming it into a reservoir to serve the public, Idaho legalized slot machines on a local-option basis in 1947. Heavy license fees were imposed. But the results were weird and astounding. Though the state legally controlled them, the slots acted, increasingly, like a virus in the body politic, dividing Idaho citizens against each other, changing the shape of towns, altering social life, wounding business and giving whole communities a surrealistic civic philosophy...
...Mixed Armistice Commission. Refugee Arabs raid across the border to pluck a few oranges from groves that had been taken from them, or to liberate a few cattle or some lengths of irrigation pipe from the Israeli side. The Israelis raid back in force to shoot up the Arabs. Local commanders sometimes smooth over incidents; other times the MAC has to move in for an investigation, then fitful peace returns...
Magie thinks the selection of undergraduates was based too heavily on other students' opinions than on the individual's ability to work with his local Harvard Club. He suggested that the Committee on Admissions and local schools committees select members for the undergraduate group...
Miss Lord, a 17-year-old Medford High School senior, is currently touring local colleges and has appeared on Monroe's "Camel Caravan" radio show...
...claiming that the only alternatives facing local film showers is cut-throat competition or paternalism, Mr. Ulln is ignoring the purpose which moves the College to grant student groups what freedom they have. That purpose has nothing to do with procuring good entertainment for undergraduates, for the officials could do that much easier and better by importing companies like the Boston Film Society, it has nothing to do with providing financial crutches for political groups or even creative groups, for pure money raising is irrelevant to the group's main purpose and threatens the University's tax-exempt status...