Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Normandy, the checkup showed, children from 18 months up drink the local Calvados (homemade applejack) at meals and between meals. In the Vendée, schoolchildren pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
Throughout France's wine areas, many children take a swig every time the jug is passed. In the Vendée, a local health officer asked a farmer's wife why her two infants were flushed and screaming. Explained the mother placidly: "Last night was the Communion supper. They drank one more Triple Sec than usual...
...Lawyer Ben Garland of Jackson: empower local school boards to segregate the schools on the basis of sex, color, or whatever other qualifications they wish...
...UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually, the anti-UNESCO chorus grew to such volume that Stoddard was forced to withdraw the manual...
Deep in his heart, every art collector yearns to pick up a painting for a few dollars, dust it off and discover it is really a long-lost old master. For one collector, the wish has come true. In Johannesburg, Businessman (tire-recapping) Maurice Hirsch poked around at a local auction sale and bought for $375 a painting he thought "looked good." Local collectors were doubtful, but Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection...