Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morale of precinct workers and local organizations of the Republican party in several states is shot to pieces, and this may prove a major cause contributing to the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress...
...Sapporo, the Emperor watched a schoolroom full of crippled children struggling painfully to their feet to greet him, and he bowed deeply to the children before they could bow to him. At Kushiro he ate the plain buckwheat noodles and mackerel of the local villagers. When his glasses needed wiping, he handed his straw hat to his Empress, who held it obediently...
Mambo syncopations were ticking in Cuban Bandleader Prado's head as long ago as 1942. and he wrote them into arrangements for local bands. Six years later in Mexico, he formed his own band, and the mambo beat began to catch on. Prado's flair for the wild style-something like that of Stan Kenton's modernist crew -sold him with the jazz buffs and his insistent rhythm with the dancers...
Avalanche of Bathos. Hollywood's filmed TV fare included Dragnet, which began its new series with a shocker: the tracking down of a criminal who was flooding local high schools with obscene pictures. The daring theme was soon buried under an avalanche of bathos as Jack Webb set about proving that there is some good in everybody, even pornographers. Brought to bay, the filthy-picture dealer was revealed as a broken-down movie producer with total recall about the good old days in the film business...
Torture in the Canyon. Businessman Pick went about prospecting in a businesslike way. He went to the local office of the Atomic Energy Commission, asked a mining engineer named Charles A. Rasor where he should hunt. Rasor walked to a map on the wall and drew a circle around an area near Hanksville, Utah, an isolated town of some 80 people, with no electric light or telephone, near Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Colorado. Said Rasor: "If I were going prospecting, that's where...