Word: localize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of John Paul's stops on this tour, local officials were hard pressed to cope with the intense public demand for a chance to see him. In Boston, authorities worried about paralyzing traffic jams and decided to ban automobiles on the city's major downtown thoroughfares...
...legacy of Emiliano Zapata's battle cry, "Land and Liberty," is sporadic violence. Peasants who protest the ruthless domination of local rural political bosses are routinely shot by their oppressors or harassed by the army. Land redistribution has apparently reached a dead end, as López Portillo conceded during his state of the union address a month ago. Said he: "The land available for distribution is becoming exhausted, but the number of campesinos with the right to the land is growing...
...School Forum either on the role of the presidency or on their perceptions of the three most critical public policy issues. They will also have a private session with Faculty members on any subject they choose and participate in a round-table discussion on their qualifications for president with local dignitaries and journalists...
...Local Alliance now numbers between 100 and 200 members, many of whom are senior citizens, most of whom are lifelong residents of the area. Many of them and citizens from neighboring towns plan to join the occupation. Others, who cannot afford to occupy, have donated their land for camping, parking and staging uses, as well as for use as medical, information, and media centers--even though they face the threat of intimidation and harassment by local and state authorities. They have promised to be a lifeline for the occupiers once they get onto the site, raising money and providing food...
...underscores their joys and sorrows. A woman angrily exhorts the Lord to save the life of her cow; her prayer reprimands a God who would let the only cow of a widow with six children become ill. The Pater Noster becomes a magic spell chanted in Latin by the local healer, and always there are the endless "Ave Marias," with the accent heavily on the Ave, which are brought forth, like my old Irish Grandmother's frequent "Mother of God!" for any occasion and every reason, to curse or to praise or simply to signal the beginnings of the rosary...