Word: locally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mosul area at the time of the rising. Dismayed by the unrest and drift toward Communism that have plagued Iraq since the July 1958 revolution against British-backed strongman Nuri asSaid, Tabakchali had almost certainly been involved in plans for a general army uprising against Kassem. But when the local commander in Mosul impetuously jumped the gun, Tabakchali hesitated fatally, then pulled back...
...author's pride in commonwealth, which since 1952 has given Puerto Rico (pop. 2,400,000) local self-government plus exemption from Federal income taxes. He fears that statehood would be fatal both to the Hispanic culture he prizes and to Operation Bootstrap, an industrialization program fostered by tax abatement. But with the entry of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, Muñoz had to give way to growing statehood sentiment, some of it within his own Popular Democratic Party...
...academic double life. At the university campus in Palo Alto, they learned anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology and physiology. At the 237-bed San Francisco Stanford Hospital on Clay and Webster Streets, 35 miles away, they studied pharmacology and pathology, did their clinical work under a topflight, largely volunteer staff of local physicians and surgeons, long rated as one of the best in the country...
During Evangelist Billy Graham's visit to Little Rock last week, Jimmy was among his most prominent local sponsors, sat with him at press conferences and on the platform. Summed up one Little Rock reporter: "Many church people are convinced that it's the greatest conversion since Paul of Tarsus. Others still see Jimmy Karam under the sheep's clothing...
...North Kansas City Bowl has an aviary (with a fulltime, $5,000-a-year bird keeper) and an art gallery, hopes to contribute proceeds from the sale of paintings to local charities...