Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bishops had apparently not been allowed to report to the Vatican. Explained a high Vatican spokesman: "It is possible that the Hungarian bishops, in order to save what still can be saved, may have entered into an 'understanding' with the government. But to magnify such a local understanding into a solemn agreement between church and state is gross exaggeration." Such an agreement could be signed only by a fully empowered emissary from the Holy See; no such emissary has gone (or could go) behind the Iron Curtain...
Losing Battle. "Local understandings" similar to the Hungarian agreements have been made by Catholic clergymen with the Communistic governments of Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Vatican reported last week that five of the Czech bishops who were supposed to have signed an agreement with the state last year are actually in jail. Adam Cardinal Sapieha did not sign the Polish agreement, and has not been able to communicate with the Vatican for months...
...Arsenic and Old Lace, the picture manages nevertheless to make its irreverence amusing while generally clearing the hurdles of poor taste. It trips only when it tries to be conventional, i.e., with a love triangle in which Victor Mature, as a claims investigator, and local Insurance Agent Leif Erickson compete for the affections of Stella (Ann Sheridan), the family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from...
...Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
...Advertised. In Decatur, 111., the night after a touring revivalist advertised in the Decatur Herald and Review that his local crusade had "caught fire," his tent burned down...