Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...demanding as many pints of blood as ever. The Red Cross has not had an easy time filling war's requirements for blood, and it will continue to have trouble unless its drives are well received. Moreover, many surgical operations have been postponed because of the wartime drain on local bloodbanks...
...bloodmobiles are making their rounds again, rounds paved with whatever pledges the local drive organizers have been able to get. Perhaps there are some who assert that Harvard has done enough paving for one year, having set the national collegiate record this fall with 2,116 pints. But as long as the present need for blood continues, such objections miss the point. It would be unfortunate if undergraduates were so blinded by their earlier prodigality that they would refuse to bare their arms once more...
Those arrested were: William B. Pescosolido '55 on charges of disturbing the peace; Edward F. Stockwell '55, drunkenness; Donald Butters '55, disturbing the peace; and George Buelger '55, disturbing the peace. The four were booked at the central police headquarters at 12:50 a.m. A local person, Benjamin Freeman, was also arrested and charged with drunkenness...
...Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held cheerin' till it whitened for day in the eastern world...
...week's more amusing incidents took place in Washington, D.C. last Thursday when the local American Legion chapter marched out to save Our Way of Life. Armed with signs stating "American Legion Opposes This Picture as Un-American" and "American Legion Says America First," the pudgy legionnaires picketed the Ontario Theatre and its feature, Death of a Salesman...