Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should kill her, or maybe that you should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...
...none of the Hi-Lo's has had much professional training. Bass Puerling and Baritone Bob Strasen grew up together in Milwaukee, went to Los Angeles looking for a break in show business. There they teamed up with Tenors Burroughs and Bob Morse, who were appearing with a local band. They started practicing five hours a day, soon decided that they were getting good enough to sell their act. The group considered and rejected a dozen names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally hit on the Hi-Lo's because their heights ranged from...
...last week, the contract jumpers were promptly cut from the Builders' roster. But Manager Kromer had no apologies for his bonuses. He had no fancy ballyard, he said; how else could he lure players? His words went unheeded. Fearful lest the youngsters be embarrassed by the publicity, local papers kept their names out of stories of the scandal. One of the boys is already back in a Jet uniform thanks to his father's appeal to the league's board of governors. The other, unfortunately, has yet to report back and apologize to the Jets' manager...
...exhibition in the Hitler-built Haus der Kunst, while the old building, its true home, was only a dismal rendezvous for petty gangsters and furtive lovers. When plans got underway to clean up the ruin and replace it with a technical university, a groundswell of impassioned opposition pushed the local Bavarian government to rebuild the Alte Pinakothek...
...Behns with a $122 million debt. Like a nine-lived cat, I.T. & T. was saved when the U.S. went off the gold standard, raising the value of foreign money. Sosthenes worked his way out of the hole (minus Hernand who died in 1933) by getting foreign subsidiaries to float local bond issues, boosting the parent company's U.S. credit. But no sooner was he solvent again than European upheavals put him right back in trouble...