Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GAINESVILLE, GA., which numbers 11,936 people, fixed itself a quota of $34,528. On its streets last week, practically every electric power and telephone pole bore Red Feather placards and the slogan "Give." Over the two local radio stations, at 30-minute intervals, sounded one loud knock, then seven more knocks, and finally a voice saying, "You'd rather have your door knocked once than seven times, wouldn't you? Give to the Community Chest!" (The knocks referred to the seven local agencies for which funds were being sought...
...corn with machine-gun precision, hitting the bang-board with a new ear every second or oftener. "Oiyoiyoi, oiyoiyoi!" shrilled one of the astounded French farmers, seizing his spinning head in both hands. When all the corn was husked, everybody gathered around to try out the hooks. Even the local priest joined in the trials, while Elmer passed out pencils stamped with his picture...
...vote for Premier Nicholas Plastiras' National Progressive Union of the Center in the Nov. 16 general election. While naming Plastiras "a traitor ... an enemy of the people and an agent of American-ocracy," Zachariades said Communist voters must aim at "getting the highest possible democratic concentration," particularly on local slates. The reason: "The [Communists] personally despise the executioner, Papagos, much more...
...involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop, a fighting politician who got himself elected Gyalpo (i.e., King) of the Land of the Thunder-dragon. Knighted by the British, who understood such ambition, Sir Ugyen Wangchuk ruled for 19 years and died in 1926. He was succeeded...
Stressing that students have responsibilities to both the local community as well as to student fund drives, Hunt, who is chairman of the University's Red Feather drive, said "student aid is a community matter, and in return student charities should not monopolize student interest...