Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your income tax?"-Taxes: the federal tax, the state tax, the local tax; tax for this, tax for that . . . And the blondes. Thousands of blondes all over the place, beautiful blondes, beautifully dressed women...
...Spain and unoccupied Southern France. He very nearly failed to make it. Alarmed by the North African invasion, the Germans had decided to take over Vichy France. At the Swiss border, Dulles was held up by a French official who seemed more impressed by the watchful eye of the local Gestapo man than by Dulles' impassioned references to Lafayette and Pershing. Finally, when the Nazi ambled off to a tavern for his regular noontime beer, the Frenchman gave Dulles the nod, and he crossed into Switzerland, the last American to arrive there legally for nearly two years...
...When the local Reds came around one day and told Vaclav Uhlik that they were going to nationalize his small machine shop in Pilsen, Vaclav made up his mind. He would escape to the West. Cautiously, he enlisted some friends in his plan: two Czech soldiers, a gardener named Josef Pisarik, Libuse Cloud, who had married an American G.I. from Sioux City back in 1949, but had never been able to get out of Czechoslovakia to join him. Then Vaclav swapped his most precious possession, a diesel engine, for a beaten-up British halftrack abandoned after...
...idea of lecture-concerts. Since its Colorado debut, the LaSalle has given 150 of them, and as many regular concerts. Last academic year it played for the public schools in Colorado Springs, and soon found students dragging their parents to evening concerts. Now the members of the group are local celebrities; they are stopped on the streets by autograph hunters...
...Alabama hospital bed carries with it no assurance of adequate care. The state's funds work out at about $1.80 a day for each patient. Local and voluntary moneys boost the total to $4.50, whereas in hard-pressed Mississippi the total is $6.24, and in Tennessee $10. Only three of Alabama's eight sanatoriums are equipped for surgery, and some give streptomycin and isoniazid only to patients who can pay for them. One 65-bed hospital has no registered nurse; a practical nurse does her best with unskilled help...