Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters' concern, blamed each other for what was going on in Algeria. None attacked the French record as bluntly as ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France. In 1947 France gave Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems a sort of second-class citizenship by allowing them to elect the local legislature's Second College, which, in turn, sent 15 delegates to the French National Assembly. The Europeans in Algeria, who number only 1,200,000, also got 15 seats...
...that 87% of all the syllables in the abridged Webster's dictionary are phonetic. The Hay-Wingo system begins with the short vowel sounds, then the ten most commonly used consonants. After that come the long vowel sounds and the ,rest of the consonants. Within two months, local teachers claim, "the children are unlocking words-on their...
...Parry O'Brien put the shot 58 ft. 4 in., and heaved the discus 159 ft. 3 in., for New Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down an offer of $1,000,000 for the club that had been bought 30 years...
...18th century days of Mozart and Haydn, Europe was dotted with small opera houses that regularly gave light musical dramas or comedies of manners. Most of the houses were supported by the local duke or prince; most of the listeners were his personal guests. Their powdered periwigs bobbed together to the familiar rhythms on stage and they tittered behind lace kerchiefs at the coquettish young chambermaids, amorous old goats and desperately conspiratorial lovers. But these small houses in time were replaced by the giant "imperial" or "state" opera houses that are still standing, and the little drawing-room operas were...
...will find themselves aging rather more rapidly than Tone, who keeps himself in shape by doing knee-bends in moments of crisis and repeating that everything is "mighty very fine." The same cannot be said of Author Boles's novel, but it does tell a story with authentic local color-and it sure is "mighty very" wholesome...