Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Watford, Clem made a quarter-hour speech and the Hillman collected the first of the many bouquets that were soon to fill its back seat. From Watford the Attlee's road led to Wolverton and thence to Coventry. At each town border, local police escorts were waiting to pick up the Hillman...
...farm, smashed and scattered farm tools, opened chicken coops and rabbit hutches. some of them broke down the heavy door of the farmhouse and seized Farmer Merkel. He was beaten and kicked until he signed a paper admitting that he was a "saboteur" and agreed to resign his local offices n the Christian Democratic Party. that night, Merkel and his wife and daughter left their snug farm and, carring only a rucksack apiece, set out on foot for the safety of the West...
...story spread, new versions of the Cihost "miracles" cropped up. A report circulated in Prague was that a local Communist had approached Father Toufar as if to strike him. As the Communist raised his arm, the crucifix began to glow and move, and the man fell back...
...skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled 50 freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here, heaped it atop a huge ski jump in balmy Tokyo's Korakuen stadium. The Transportation Ministry and a local newspaper, which sponsored the meet and paid for the snow, lost only 959,950 yen ($2,667) on the event...
...from dispelling the cloud of rumors, it stirred up fresh ones. Among the most persistent: that the archbishop had really been eased out, partly at the instigation of Quebec's highhanded, labor-hating Premier Maurice Duplessis. The two men had clashed sharply when Archbishop Charbonneau and the local clergy sided with members of the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor in the bitter Asbestos strike (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949 et seq.) even after the strikers barricaded the town and fought Duplessis' police with clubs...