Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local Zulu chieftains were not so purblind. Fearing Tikoloshe might still be on hand, they asked permission to stand by and watch when Msomi was hanged. Permission was granted...
...excessive zeal embarrassing. Once he went on a hunger strike to force Palermo's government to do something about Trappeto's poor. He won: the government allotted him some $50,000 to begin an irrigation dam in a nearby valley to provide work and water for the local poor. But soon he found himself in trouble with landowners who claimed his dam would drain their own farms...
...back alleys. A spate of pamphlets poured from his angry pen asking, among other questions, "How many people in Partinico will hang themselves this year?" and "How many will go mad?" Dressed in a thick, white pullover sweater, he was often to be seen waiting in the local mayor's office to demand attention on some problem or other. Last year, after another hunger strike prompted by the death of a child from starvation, Dolci succeeded in wringing a promise from Partinico's mayor that "nobody will ever die of hunger again in this community, and I will...
Three weeks ago Dolci gathered 200 jobless fishermen and farm hands armed with picks and shovels, and set to work on a local road in need of repair. "We are, not asking to be paid for our work," he insisted. "But of course we hope that when it is completed, the authorities may agree it was necessary and give us something...
...fight back without quarter." He also moved fast to hush up news of the massacre. By quickly blocking news cables, the government successfully kept the story out of most papers abroad; only travelers' reports, days later, spelled out the ugly truth. The government's censors muzzled the local press...