Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Expanding and improving the internal transportation systems of present-day underdeveloped countries represents a great opportunity for the American aviation industry to be of service. Its capital and know-how in partnership with local investors . . . can measurably strengthen the countries we wish to be our friends. With the growth of adequate transportation will come agricultural improvement and industrial development. Better education, health services, more advantages for workers will follow...
...almost irrelevant. The fact seemed to be that in a slow, subsurface fashion, the people of Western Europe had finally made up their minds that German rearmament is inevitable. There was plenty of agitation in last week's parliamentary debating in Bonn and Paris, but local passions, not the Kremlin threats, were what caused...
...World War I who had fallen in love with a woman three years his senior whose husband was away at the front. The townsfolk of Saint-Maur, reading the story of illicit passion, remembered that the young author himself had been seen often in the company of a local schoolteacher named Alice, a married woman some years older...
...Addressing a group of local industrial bigwigs, the University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton chided them and his colleagues for indiscriminate giving and receiving: "It has been our pleasant custom in the past, like the chorus girl, to accept anything but abuse, and we are paying a high price for our generosity in accepting generosity . . . We have accepted scholarships that cost us more to administer than we received in tuition income; we have accepted buildings that drained away . . . our precious free money ... These [restricted] gifts can break us or corrupt us or both...
...only the local witch doctor, up to his innocent tricks. His usual voo had lost its do, and in the emergency, he had invoked, by making a few passes with needle and thread, the familiar spirit of that infinitely greater magician who has cast his spell upon the entire world-Walt Disney. Indeed, not since the Age of Fable, not since Mage Merlin and Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing...