Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents machine-gunned to death by a German plane as they fled across France in 1940, becomes obsessed with ideas of death and burial. She and a boy from the family with whom she takes refuge build a cemetery for animals in an old mill, and steal crosses from local graves to mark the resting places of dead animals. Eventually they are found out, and their little game comes...
...Films and the HLU have not yet submitted their petition. We can only suggest that they tackle their own problems for a change, and that they renew the zeal for independence they once possessed. Surely, it would not be impossible to set up an inter-group committee among local film purveyors which would settle all these trivial disagreements whenever they appeared. Presumably, the Crimson Key's calender service could be of help...
...embarrassing grand-jury questions on his administration of the city. Señor O'Dwyer explained that shortly before retiring as ambassador he had asked for and received the status of immigrant to Mexico. As such, he will keep his U.S. citizenship. His new job: partner in a local law firm in the capacity of "legal advisor," since only Mexican citizens may actually practice law. Meanwhile, ecclesiastical law was moving toward a decision on O'Dwyer's separation from Sloan Simpson. The archbishop of Mexico announced that steps were being taken to have the marriage annulled...
...week each, the girls were on daily call to sing everything from hillbilly tunes to a soporific midnight show called Moon River. Then one day Bandleader Tony Pastor came through Cincinnati on the lookout for a new singer. The Clooney Sisters, swimming in a local pool when the summons came, rushed out and sang an audition with hair plastered down around their faces, but their voices landed them...
...temperature from 50° to 60°, only to find that his claret began ripening far ahead of schedule and that it was all Christ Church men could do to drink it up in time. But otherwise, Mr. Dodgson was a paragon of scrupulous management, and once when a local merchant tried to ingratiate himself by sending a Christmas gift of fruit, he huffily sent it back. "Mr. Dodgson would have thought it hardly necessary " he wrote, "to point out that the curator whose duty it is to provide the best goods he can for the Common Room, cannot possibly...