Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good fortune has been that the local officialdom agrees with us, or at least that it goes along far enough to grant us independence. It is true, of course, that the College has at times tried to assert control, but these assaults have come only spasmodically. Whether relief in those cases came from higher officials or from the deans' self-restraint is obscure, but what is important is that all such attempts have failed...
...Elliott Perkins, the present Master, follows the old Arabic custom of taking salt with one's friends; he passes around the table a large silver urn, the gift of Coolidge. The salt is no personal eccentricity of Perkins'; it takes the place of wine at High Table. With local liquor reguations what they are, the Houses are forbidden to serve alcoholic beverages, and thus instead of offering up a toast in wine, the High Table guest dips into the salt...
...local wave of hold-ups has claimed a University student as one of its victims...
...course, When the Gods Are Silent follows Soloviev's own career. The book opens with a glimpse of a village in the heart of the steppes, where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare...
Exactly what did happen to Norman Shepard's team is difficult to tell. Although no one expected the Crimson to beat all its opponents, local fans hoped the-team would top at least one of the three--Washington University of St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and the University of Nebraska...