Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parasol. Gasped sweating Prince Kumar: "In India, we start our polo games at 5 in the afternoon." Between the humidity and the royalty, hardly anyone noticed the final score of the game, which the Washingtonians won, 10-5. Afterwards the maharaja and his wife and son repaired to a local dairy, where they cooled off over frosted milkshakes...
...Unlike their neighbors in Jodhpur, the natives of Jaipur have never succeeded in popularizing their local trouser-style in the Occident. As a matter of fact, even in Jaipur, the only people who wear jaipurs are babies...
...sands of North Africa, burning Moslem nationalism collided head-on with determined French colonialism. The tribesmen of Morocco slew hundreds and were slain by the hundreds in return; neither side troubled unduly to spare the innocent. The occasion for the bloodshed was local in nature but worldwide in its implications: Who should be Sultan of Morocco-a French puppet or the man the Moroccans themselves wanted as their Imam (Commander of the Faithful)? Deeper than this ran stronger currents: France's pride of empire, the Moroccans' longing for independence. In this confused situation, the nation that brought modern...
...wheat field near a place called Tired Men's Well. Next day, the French tanks were drawn up in a huge U. Long lines of Berher tribesmen filed in between them. Their women and children came with them, many carrying flags. The most important of the Berber Caids (local chiefs) arrived in a Chevrolet...
...French set up an Algerian Parliament to deal with local affairs. The Arabs' Nationalist Party withdrew from elections, maintaining (correctly) that the seating was rigged in favor of the French colons. Extremists organized a bloody rising in the eastern mountains last year. Moderate Nationalists might have worked for compromise, but the French outlawed the entire party and declared that because "Algeria is France," revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. When Morocco's "Fateful Day" arrived a fortnight...