Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...await operations on his hip which he hopes will repair the effects of a serious auto accident suffered 22 years ago. Next day, conscious of his duty to his public and perhaps alarmed by a hint of bad publicity, Godfrey gave an interview to 16 members of the local press. Wearing a boldly patterned aloha shirt ("I never sleep in anything else"), Godfrey posed for pictures. He hugged his nurse and hung Tarzanlike from an overhead bed trapeze. He explained away the business at the airport by saying: "I didn't want any one hit by a propeller...
...Hong Kong's South China Morning Post last week, the three British banks still technically doing business on the Communist-ruled Chinese mainland ran an important ad: they would pay off all their depositors in local currencies on a sliding scale, depending on the dates when their cities were "liberated" by the Communists. The payment would be liberal-and with reason: the Red government had ordered the banks to refund not only the original deposits, but what they would be worth in terms of China's grossly inflated currency. The move would also be a windfall...
...Indians, death seemed to be a laughing matter. They would roar with glee when their best friends came down with beriberi or were snapped out of dugouts by the giant anacondas. Everybody, Indian or white, drank incredible quantities of cachaça, the local cane liquor, ate maggoty rice and dried meat, and sank deeper into debt...
Most of the links prove to be rusty or broken. His old employer is dead. And the employer's daughter, a girl who longed to marry well, has settled for a cheap cardsharp. The local priest is a sly opportunist, and the villagers are clamped in the narrow vise of ignorance...
...Leaf. In El Paso, Richard Marinoff. convicted of swindling nuns at a local orphanage while posing as an Army chaplain, told the court he had recently been released from Leavenworth, was only trying to get a fresh start...