Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfits as the Dixie Playboys and the Shenandoah Valley Boys, Darlene was signed on the basis of a demonstration record, loaded aboard the Victor March of Dimes train for a tour of the country. Her high, nasal voice and tub-thumping beat went over big at whistle stops and local auditoriums. Two of her singles-My Boy Elvis and Little Bit-got on the charts, and with her latest disk, Love Me to Pieces, just out, Victor is publicizing her as the "female Presley...
...citizens of Haji Salleh village naturally became alarmed. Something, the people said, has cast a spell over the girls and they sent for some local bomohs (medicine men) to drive the evil away. The first delegation of bomohs failed miserably: after the girls returned from their Hari Raya Haji holiday (20 days before the Moslem New Year), they went on a rampage again. Another six bomohs came, but after prayers, incantations and trances, announced that the evil spirit was much greater than they. One bomoh decided that the spirit must lodge in a certain rubber tree, ordered the tree...
...fill the void, Boston radio and TV stations hired laid-off reporters and beefed up their newscasts, but still were without the legmen to give listeners more than fragmentary local news coverage. An outdoor advertising company teamed with WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV to spread an outsize Page One across two Boston Common billboards twice daily. Some of the most enterprising makeshift newspapers were put out for employees by Boston insurance companies. American Mutual Liability Insurance published a multilith bulletin under the slogan: ALL THE NEWS...
...economy, e.g., retail sales, new construction, are still booming-it could quickly start upward again. A Government tax cut. predicted for next year, would encourage business investment. And any loosening of the money market could stimulate more home construction, trigger postponed borrowing by business and state and local governments...
Back in Monterrey loudspeakers in the public squares reported a running account of the game. For the rest of the year, Angel and his teammates will go back to shining shoes on the streets after school, working in the local foundry for 50? a day. Until two years ago, they played baseball barefoot. But now they are the town's pride. Fire engines screamed through the streets to celebrate the victory, and all over Monterrey men burst into song. The kids began their celebration with a sightseeing trip to New York. Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...