Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college, and he can cuss like a teamster. Once, local legend has it, he convened a meeting with the words: "All right, you sons of bitches, let's pray." He can also speak with a fervor honed by years as a Methodist lay preacher...
Tear-Gas Attack. On the far right, the four-year-old National Democratic Party suffered its first setback at the polls when rightist candidates collected only 5.2% of the vote in local elections in the big West German state of Lower Saxony, which borders on East Germany. Until now, the National Democrats have been winning a higher percentage of the vote in each succeeding election, gaining 9.8% in last April's state elections in Baden-Württemberg...
Defending the Bastions. By the time Wilson took his turn to speak, delegates were thirsting for uplift. As the Labor vote shrank in one by-election after another, men and women with lifetimes of service lost their posts as local officials on town councils and school boards. Moreover, to many fervent socialists, Wilson's economic policies have added up to a betrayal of their lifelong principles. And yet, as head of the party, he was still the only man to whom they could turn for inspiration...
...entered, she received several encouraging embraces from spectators, then stood to hear the prosecution charge that her novel "insidiously presents in factual style a denunciation of a community." The prosecution's unhappiness turned largely on her portrayal of local officials, including a judge, who join in what the court called "a lamentable series of acts" to quash a peasant strike organized by field hands who want better...
First proposed in 1958, the reorganization plan allows the local congregations considerable autonomy. They will keep title to their property, retain the right to plan their own services, decide on membership requirements, hire their pastors. Central policy, however, will be decided by a new general assembly composed of 5,000 delegates elected by the congregations, which is expected to meet every two years, and a 400-member general board. A new general minister and president" and a 47-member administrative committee will carry out the decisions of the assembly and board...