Word: home-grown
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...daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
...Lucy (scheduled to compete with BBC's prize variety hour, The Ted Ray Show), Dragnet, Hopalong Cassidy, Ed Murrow's Person to Person, and Billy Graham. Last fortnight the contracts were signed for the import of Liberace, complete with candelabra and toothy smile. But many of the home-grown products will bear a resemblance to U.S. shows. Example: Sunday Night at the Palladium, featuring such stars as Gracie Fields and Johnnie Ray, will be a vaudeville hour on the lines of Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. Basically, the commercial TVmen think the BBC incapable...
...result, said GATT, is that the people of predominantly agrarian countries pay high prices for shoddy manufactures produced in their own factories, while the people of industrial nations are forced to buy expensive home-grown food...
Heretofore, Red China's masters have dismissed rebels in scornful and deprecatory terms as "bandits," "imperialist agents," "members of the discredited Chiang Kai-shek clique." This time the Communists did not put the onus on foreign agents, but conceded the existence of a home-grown opposition to the People's Government. "The leaders of the group," said the Peking radio, "were sentenced to death...
While it faces a stronger and strengthening Western alliance, the Soviet Union also is plagued by home-grown problems. Its agricultural program is admittedly in serious trouble; its industry is seriously strained by the constant pressure of military production. Help to Communist China is a heavy drain; pledges to neutral lands are nagging overdue notes. Interlaced with and more important than these economic woes is the Soviet Union's political trouble. Inside the Kremlin, the struggle for power at the top still goes on; there is nothing in Marxist theory or Soviet history that can guide the Russian ruling...