Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before, as the sacrificial lamb. Stevenson swept into office over Green by the biggest margin any candidate ever piled up in Illinois (572,000 votes), while Harry Truman won the state by a slim 33,612. As governor, Stevenson sent state police out to stop commercial gambling downstate when local officials failed to act, lopped 1,300 political hangers-on off the state payroll, replaced patronage with a merit system in the state police force, overhauled the welfare program, pushed through 78 bills to streamline the state government...
Phil Murray was born in 1886 in Scotland, of Irish Catholic parents. His father was the president of the local coal miners' union, and Phil went through his first strike when he was six. Four years later, he quit school and went into the mines to work at 80? a day. The Murrays came to the U.S. in 1902, and Phil and his father went to work for the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. in Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County. In 1904, Phil slugged a Keystone weighman who was shorting him at the scales, was fired and ordered...
...considerably when he dropped his hands to his sides and said quietly: "Last night was the first good night's sleep that I have had in a long time . . ." Fairless made public a little-known fact: he has a brother who is a member of the steelworkers' local in Massillon, Ohio. "During this affair," said Fairless, "I kept away from Massillon . . . Of course [my brother] has been out of work for some time...
Philippine army intelligence pieced together the story. A month before, the army had launched separate heavy attacks against the Communistic Huks who had been spreading terror through the provinces of Bataan and Laguna. Taken by surprise, the local Huk commanders ordered the guerrillas to retreat along narrow jungle paths into the mountains. All excess baggage had to be discarded On the way; that included children...
...most readers, The Red Carnation will seem to be simply a tale of adolescent love, writ in neon. Hero Mainardi is a 16-year-old schoolboy who falls in love with a girl student. She gives him a red carnation. But on visiting the local brothel, Mainardi promptly loses both his unstable heart and his symbolic carnation to a prostitute. In her, Mainardi sees all his boyish dreams of confident maturity come true; she sees in him the innocence and naturalness that she has lost...