Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid an undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor a friendly editorial: "Welcome, Farmer King Zog. While Nassau County farmers have been selling their land to live like kings on their real estate profit, along comes a king who wants to do some Long Island farming . . . Now when Nassau crows about...
Besides his duties as museum director, Bear has outside chores as lecturer, art-show judge and critic, and still finds time to paint himself. Last week his museum show had some friendly competition from a local private gallery: an exhibit of Director Bear's own pen, wash and chalk drawings...
...thunderstruck local Communists let him finish. It was a month before the police came to arrest him. Since then, nothing has been heard of Father Tung...
...factories mentioned were largely the King's American colonies, which until the Revolution were the S.P.G.'s principal mission field. Besides standard ecclesiastical works, e.g., Patrick Smith's Preservative against Quakerism and The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, missionaries carried with them local helps such as Bishop Wilson's Essay Towards the Instruction of the Indians...
...Will Be Said . . ." In the end, he won only a partial victory. The Spaniards were gone, but Venezuela remained riven by petty local interests and provincial narrowness. Bolivar's dream of a Latin-American federation came to nothing...