Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young hoodlums of the village started hanging out at McFall's, but otherwise life in Clayton droned on exactly as before. Then the town experienced an incomprehensible act of violence. Russell Simpson, a 19-year-old local ne'er-do-well, walked into Hathaway's market and lunch counter at closing time, pulled out a pistol and cried, "I want your money!" The 71-year-old grocer grabbed a butcher knife and hacked at the youth's face and arm. Simpson began shooting. His pistol fired, clicked twice, and fired again. The grocer fell dead...
...Cheek. At just about this time, last week's other star witness, an ex-robber named Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'s "pistol local," which today dominates the great piers of the French Line, the United States Lines and the Cunard Steamship...
Genova testified that he first heard of Bowers through John ("Apples") Applegate, an old pal from Sing Sing. Shortly thereafter a hood named Gregory the Bandit was mysteriously shot to death in a Twelfth Avenue barroom. Gregory was the pistol local's delegate. Mickey Bowers moved...
Cleve packed the sturgeon in ice and shipped it off to Yeovil to Fishmonger Tom Moore, who in turn earmarked it for a local hotel. After these practical matters had been attended to, Cleve bethought himself of form, and sent a telegram offering the fish to the Queen. Next day the startling reply came back from Sandringham, where the Queen was vacationing. "Your very kind offer accepted. Please send fish to comptroller...
...effort to out costs, the Smoker Committee will petition the local Board of Licouse Commissioners Tuesday afternoon for a license to purchase beer whole sale. The Board, which is responsible to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, last year turned down a similar request...