Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most effective ways of breeding enmity among friendly nations is to station the troops of one country on the soil of another in peacetime. The problem is compounded when the foreign troops claim extraterritorial privileges and hold themselves not subject to local law. In the overall grand strategy of the cold war, the U.S. has sought to devise a new and workable solution to the old problems: a worldwide network of "status-of-forces agreements" designed to cover the bulk of 700,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in 49 friendly countries...
...Nuri the Happy One"), born in Baghdad in 1888, was the only son of Lowlow's descendant, Said Effendi al-Mudakikchi ("Mr. Said the Auditor"). For a boy of good family growing up in Ottoman Baghdad, the army was the only fit career, and Nuri went to a local Turkish military school that prepared candidates for the military academy in Constantinople. At twelve he nearly died of typhoid, but Baghdad's only doctor nursed him through, and in 1903 he was ready to make the hard trip to Constantinople and the three-year course at the academy...
...main spectator event of the day was an exhibition tennis match between Class Marshal W. Barry Wood and former New England Tennis Champion (currently ranked sixth) Chauncey Depew Steele, Jr. Wood bowed to the local hotel manager...
...tennis courts were, in general, well populated, as grads, their wives, and vacationing members of the local fourth estate enjoyed rarely-to-be-found grass courts, which provided a variety of skids and bounces for those unaccustomed to grass play...
Fighting Retreat. In Forward Township, Pa., when Prohibition-minded citizens compelled the three-tavern area to take a local-option vote on beer and spirits, citizens voted narrowly against the continued sale of beer but for the sale of hard liquor...