Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad pass he held as a retired railroad employee, he traveled all over Britain interviewing everyone he could find who had known his son. He wrote letters to China and the U.S., and even took a trip to Wisconsin to find Bridge House veterans. He besieged his local M.P. with evidence and demands that the government act. "It had proved impossible," War Secretary Shinwell told the House of Commons last June, "to obtain evidence ... to bring these Japanese to trial...
...contest was arranged with the rigorous etiquette of a duel. The two contestants first chose their seconds: a local Catholic layman and a Communist poet. When Father Lombardi refused a public out-of-door contest ("I have no fear...
...first serious clash was in the northwest, at the town of La Cruz (pop. 2,000), where an advance column of attackers from Nicaragua with jeeps, mortars and automatic weapons routed the 15 customs guards in the local garrison. Figueres estimated the invasion spearhead at 800 to 1,000 men, of whom about 100 were genuine Costa Rican exiles. The rest, he charged, were Communists, mercenaries, and a hard core of picked troops from Nicaragua's Guardia National...
...three-man professional jury, asked to judge the Corcoran Gallery of Art's annual show of local artists, decided to apply strict professional standards to what is largely an amateur event. They found only 18 paintings worth hanging on the wall. That left more than 1,000 entries (painters of every school, from mock-Picassos to mock-realists) out in the cold. To comfort the rejected artists, the Corcoran hung their pictures in another part of the gallery...
...like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan to Saratoga, Calif. There, after divorcing Walter de Havilland, she married George M. Fontaine, manager of a local department store...