Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost everyone agreed on independence soon-hopefully by 1959. All wanted immediate "Nigerianization" of the local government before independence. But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean. Each anxious to be top dog in the government that emerges, Awolowo, Prime Minister of the Yoruba West, and Azikiwe, Prime Minister of the Ibo East moved into town with all the fanfare of hopeful candidates at a U.S. national convention. Each installed a huge...
...dictator could not very well overlook evidence that his colonial administration was gypping the home government by permitting local businesses to sell their goods abroad at a fat profit instead of shipping them back to Portugal at government-controlled prices-but he did not have to like it. Playwright Galvão was quietly dropped from the list of acceptable Assembly candidates by the nation's only political party, and soon afterward was hauled off to jail on charges of plotting against the regime...
...Positive Asian Diplomacy," through Formosa, Burma, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Ceylon, in preparation for a visit to Washington. His purpose: to persuade his neighbors that the new Japan was anxious to cooperate "in a spirit of modesty to achieve mutual prosperity by combining American capital, Japanese technology and local resources...
Takahashi injected 2 cc. of anesthetic into Ohmura's spinal column, and Ohmura gave himself a local anesthetic. Then the nurse handed the patient a scalpel. Squinting belly wards, without the aid of a mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down...
Breuer's partial answer to the objections was to use similar materials (old German limestone), match up cornice lines, and reduce scale by dividing the embassy into two building's connected by a glassed-in passageway. Now, with The Hague's burgomaster, planning commission and local architects behind him, Breuer is convinced that by the time the embassy is completed in the fall of 1958, people, including even the steadfast Hagenaars, will be prepared to accept and admire...