Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could limit itself to local tactical action aimed at stopping the invasion of Quemoy and Matsu. Both Quemoy and Matsu lie so close offshore that U.S. naval and air operations would be severely restricted in effectiveness. Fleets of Red junks assembled and launched by night might unload their troops before U.S. sea and air forces could stop them. Even in the face of this sort of U.S. intervention, the Communists might...
...provincial mayor: the opportunity to play official host to the Queen and her consort Prince Philip as they passed through town on a spring tour of the county. Delighted, Dickie plunged elbow-deep into plans for a gala reception at the town hall and a royal inspection of the local cotton mill. But then he learned that Her Majesty was to be attended at the visit by 100 rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor, who in turn appealed to the Lord Lieutenant in charge of the royal tour. Could the airmen...
...When the French bombed the villages and schools and drove us into the jungle, the Communists were our friends." The Communists were now replaced by young nationalist soldiers and officials of Premier Diem. How did the villagers like them? The young local barber answered: he was uncertain of them at first, but he was beginning to feel that they were good men and could be trusted. Were things any better since the Communists went away? Some things, the barber replied. "There is peace." And one can travel (the Communists had required a permit for travel even to the nearest market...
...Soviet School No. i called him in and showed him a letter directed to his father, who was on a trip to Moscow. The letter advised Lt. Col. Lysikov that Valery had fallen prey to "dangerous American influences," and had been formally condemned for them by the local youth group. In the corridors after the interview, Valery heard a girl whisper that he was going to be sent back to Russia...
...week, on the eve of a new tourist season, the geishas at Japan's 300-year-old resort city Kanazawa (pop. 250,000) decided that this ungallant Peeping Tomism had gone far enough. In an atmosphere redolent of heady perfume and rice powder, the girls met in the local town hall to air their indignation. "When I received notice that my earnings were estimated at over 400,000 yen [$1,110]' cried willowy Miss Grasslike Freshness, "my voice failed me." "My heart," mourned the veteran Miss Small Superiority, "is filled with sadness...