Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were lost, people missed the plane. Top Aide J. Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn medicine show about Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side-of-the-road. No one but Estes would pause...
...domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy day's hunting Khrushchev potted three chamois, one stag. But even as the guns barked at Belje, it was evident-and local Communists were saying-that Comrade Khrushchev had come to Yugoslavia for bigger game than that...
...repertory, it seemed likely that the two old Moscow-trained Communists had something more far-reaching to talk about: the future of Tito and Titoism. In the last two months the Russians have shown some impatience with Tito's propaganda in the satellite states, where he encourages local Communist autonomy in line with the "many roads to socialism" thesis. His jailing of Moscow-repatriated Yugoslav Communists who took the Cominform side in his quarrel with Stalin has drawn a rebuke from Pravda. Did Soviet leaders think the time had come to cut Tito down to size...
...last week and, as usual, picked portly, genial President Anastasio Somoza, for 22 years Nicaragua's unchallenged boss, to be their candidate in next year's election. Flattered and proud, "Tacho" Somoza went that night to mingle with the shirtsleeved crowd in the local Somoza-founded Workers' Club. It was just after 11 o'clock on Sept. 21-Somoza has always thought that 21 was his lucky number-when one of the celebrators pulled a snub-nosed Smith and Wesson .38 revolver and opened fire on the strongman...
...Gunman López Pérez was a slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious death." His acquaintances...