Word: localizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate knew it. Local politicos knew it. The retinue of reporters knew it. Without formal declaration, Massachusetts Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy launched his all-out campaign for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, as he crossed Wisconsin in a three-Cessna airplane expedition, getting lined up for the critical Wisconsin primary next April...
...acres intact down the centuries by a mixture of polygyny and polyandry. To safeguard their ancestral estate, three brothers will often share a single wife, and all children are considered to be fathered by the eldest of the brothers. Recently, a highborn Lhasa woman was simultaneously married to a local nobleman, to the Foreign Minister of Tibet, and to the Foreign Minister's son by another wife...
...grew up in the thriving black markets of World War II, and boast that they even disassembled and stole an entire U.S. ship piece by piece-from the Bay of Naples.* Among those who lived by the modern Camorra code was Big Pasquale Simonetti, who sold "protection" to the local growers and sellers of vegetables and fruit...
...battle was only starting. In Sydney a daily Sun reporter charged that he had walked up to Ava at a local pub and got a drink of champagne in his face, and the glass with it. Said he: "As I stood there dripping amid shattered glass, she gave me her views on the press in gutter language running mostly to fundamental four-letter words." Newsmen reported that she expressed the same views in roughly the same terms about the city of Melbourne to a nonplused officer of the aircraft carrier Melbourne, lent to the moviemakers by the Australian navy...
...that it is a tribe of electronic Watusi. too tall to recognize anyone but giants. At award time each spring, the critics bow before Hope, proclaim faith in Dinah, show charity toward Sullivan. Last week the Peabody Awards committee changed TV scripture by singling out a cheery and engaging local show for one of its top awards. Shown only over Chicago's independent WGN-TV (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m.), The Blue Fairy in little more than a year captured Chicago youngsters without a struggle; now it has recognition as one of the top children's programs...