Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local Boards Retain Autonomy...
Final decisions, however, will still remain with the local draft boards. Under the draft laws, local boards can not grant deferments for periods longer than one year; regulations specifically require reopening of cases at the end of the academic year for all youths granted educational deferments to attend college. This latest information, however, indicates that the local boards will be instructed to continue granting the delays. As of February 29 there were 209,810 students in this category...
Like any other Negro kid growing up in the South, Boy got the idea very fast: white is right. But he was a serious youngster, and sometimes the useful rule of thumb became confusing. When, for instance, the local big shots gave him a scholarship to a Negro college, his faith in the white man soared. But at the stag smoker where the scholarship was awarded, the men he looked up to forced him to look on while a naked blonde did a lascivious dance, and the town's best citizens got haywire drunk...
Static. In Philadelphia, an annual Friends report, chiding local Quakers for too much talk and not enough meditation at recent meetings, maintained there was "no chance for God to get a word...
With Reservations. In Tampa, local boosters loudly boasted of 352 days of sunshine every year, put on a Chamber of Commerce Day, and were rained...