Word: locales
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...pushed MAP through Congress and the chancelleries of Europe. He had maneuvered it past an international minefield of patents (each country is now responsible to its citizens for payment of royalties) and a maze of different currencies (the Europeans have agreed to pay the expenses of American missions in local money...
...understanding, local though it was, came just in time. Not long afterward, Franck was run down by an omnibus; in six months he was dead...
Cambridge police early this morning began a new towing campaign to crack down on out-of-state motorists who are illegally parking cars in the Harvard Square area. Hundreds of parking tags were issued by the local police Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings in an effort to identify the violators...
...from the impatient heir of the now disemboweled murder victim. You see plenty of Paris in the daytime from the top of the Eiffel tower; now you see fully as much of it at night, as the camera and Maigret follow Radek on a tour of all the local hotspots while he generously unloads his ill-gotten loot. The movie's best scene takes place in one of these lush Pigalle bistros, as a dozen ambulant violinsts toy with Radek's ambivalent emotions...
Near Stara Pazova I came upon an old peasant leaning over a fence and talking to a hog. Through my interpreter, I asked him why he hadn't joined the local zadruga (cooperative). He stared at me for a long time. Then he reached down with a long-fingered hand and picked up a piece of his soil, black...