Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanded program of technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid...
...censure committee, arose to speak. He recalled that McCarthy had accused him of bias and, as usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that no such text could be found in the Bible. Whereupon the preacher opened the Scriptures...
Last week, the opposition Republicans angrily struck back. Totting up the results of recent local elections, they discovered that in four years their strength had been cut from 35% of the elected mukhtars (village headmen) to 17%. Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans (and onetime President of Turkey, succeeding the late great Kemal Ataturk) took to the Assembly floor to accuse the government of intimidation at the polls. Premier Adnan Menderes lost his usual sangfroid. Inonu was a "liar," he cried, who "spoke with the coldbloodedness of a professional criminal." He added, staring at Inonu, "God will deal with...
...year ago, however, Kwini Elizabeth found herself at odds with her Buganda subjects and their even more beloved monarch, Kabaka Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, the 30-year-old local ruler whom the Baganda know as Sabasajja, the Best and Strongest of All Men. The disagreement started when Britain's Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton tactlessly suggested that peaceful Uganda be joined with Tanganyika and Mau Mau-ridden Kenya in a big East African Federation. The Kabaka, reflecting his people's outrage, began plumping instead for complete independence for his kingdom. The British reply was to pack...
...single wing. Day after day, when the rest of the squad had finished practice, the two boys would work at place-kicking-Bobby holding, Doak booting-until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship. In four years at Texas he never lost a conference baseball game...