Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist JOSEPH ALSOP : IT is perfect nonsense, in fact, to talk of these 1958 results in terms of a gigantic, irresistible tidal wave. What looked like a tidal wave was first of all the sum of a long series of local Republican choices of candidates obviously likely to repel the maximum number of votes. Wherever the Democrats committed comparable follies, as they did here and there, they also suffered...
...McCarthy in what Master Planner Humphrey called "a unified campaign." Specifically theD.FL.: ¶ Ignored the political rule that candidates traveling and handshaking separately get more crowd exposure, sent Freeman and/or Humphrey handshaking in tandem with quick-to-learn Gene McCarthy. ¶ Refined a technique of farmers' socials, got local D.F.L. farm contacts to invite neighbors for coffee and ice cream, drew 100-or-so hard-to-reach farmers at a time to shake friendly Humphrey-Freeman- McCarthy hands and hear out criticisms of Republican Ezra Benson (but rarely of respected Ed Thye) in one sitting...
...development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself. He put it on a paying basis, and at the same time demonstrated the raising of tick-resistant Santa Gertrudis cattle crossbred with African and local Venezuelan breeds. To spread the word, he set up two other experimental farms...
...small, I made money by trapping and skinning skunks.'' Young Birdwell soon learned that there are as many ways to make pocket money as there are to skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas he kept himself in sharp clothes by working on local newspapers, later took "The All America Super Jazz Orchestra" to Mexico. After years of reporting (on the New York Mirror, Birdwell scored a beat on Lindbergh's take-off for Paris), the Bird found his perch as publicity man for David O. Selznick...
...what one character well calls "a potful of fancy-Dan wordage," there are many stretches of an astonishing Louisiana dialect, for which Author Keyes declares herself indebted to a lady friend (who has worked for the Opelousas daily World and has an "almost infallible ear for the nuances of local speech"). "I strive to please," Novelist Keyes confesses. To a striving author, Victorine should be worth its weight in gold slippers...