Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over 150 local Democrats packed Kirkland House Junior Common Room last night to hear Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, Samuel P. Huntington, instructor in Government, and James O'Dea, state representative from Lowell, address this year's first meeting of the Harvard Young Democrats...
...father was a lazy farmer, a local heller who loved his booze and women. He was one of those Civil War vets who, as the years passed, made it plain that he had just about saved the Union singlehanded. Young Adam, a quiet, diffident kid, had a rough time of it. His father wanted him to be a soldier, and almost broke him down trying to toughen him. His jealous younger half-brother Charles bullied and beat him, once nearly killed him with a hatchet...
Action claimed him from 17 to 20, when he zipped through engineering courses at the University of Vienna, joined a fraternity, got himself properly chopped about the chin in a duel, and thoroughly initiated into the bedrooms of the local frauleins. At 20, after a series of undergraduate bull sessions about free will and Zionism, he lit out for Palestine to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...
Piglets for Rahabaat. The natives have all the sins of the senses, but no sense of sm. They worship Rahabaat, a god who lives in the local volcano, with frank fertility rites. When Sam preaches his Vermont fundamentalism at the men, they giggle and slip away into the underbrush When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts...
...blooded associations like the Keep American Committee and Protect Americanism League may fare poorly in most of the Union, but they can always claim California as their stamping ground. Combined with the local virulent brand of Hearst journalism and American Legionnaires, they are a formidable array. And in their perpetual stampede, it is the state school system which suffers most...