Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greeks, mythological, ancient and modern, have long been the arbiters of womanly beauty, but their local queens have an uncertain record. Venus won the golden apple from Paris the shepherd, but helped him provoke the Trojan War; Callisto won the glances of Juno's husband, and was promptly turned into a bear; Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Greece of 1929, dressed up in men's clothes and smuggled herself into the monks' sanctuary on Mount Athos that had stood, inviolate, since the Byzantine Empire. The following year the contests were discontinued, and in 1936 Strongman Metaxas decreed that...
...Miguel was not good enough. The matches ended last week in the same old story: Reshevsky, 9½ games; Najdorf, 8½. Angry Najdorf rolled his eyes heavenward and snorted: "This man has his own personal god." But a veteran local chess player was more pragmatic about implacable Sammy Reshevsky's victory: "Reshevsky plays chess like a man who eats fish; first he takes out the bones and then he swallows the fish...
...Providing two to three years' study at Oxford for students selected by special local committees in the U.S. and the British Commonwealth. In a codicil, Rhodes added a few scholarships for Germans-in the hope that they would benefit from the civilizing influence of Oxford...
...number of poliomyelitis cases reported in the U.S. as a whole was running about 8% ahead of last year: 2,543 cases since the disease year began April 1, as against 2,361. Local health officers were reporting suspected cases more conscientiously than ever, possibly in hopes of winning allocations of gamma globulin. In fact, the polio season was turning into a gamma globulin season...
...Experience. In Richmond, police finally caught up with Escaped Convict Jack Ronald Curtis, learned that he had become a private detective, been assigned to guard a local tobacco plant safe...