Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food and clothing materials, pay our farmers and stock raisers parity prices for these commodities, and then announce to the world's famine areas that we will gladly supply their needs while famine lasts if they will allow us to supervise the method of distribution, so that local gougers may not profit...
...that Juliet's husband was out of town. Suddenly they heard the husband's approaching footsteps. The wife had the presence of mind to scream, "Thief! Thief!" and Salih, catching on, pretended that he was trying to escape. Salih was captured and arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even flinch when the Emir's men chopped off his hand at the wrist-for he knew that...
...Bourgeois nationalism," as the Communists call such local patriotism, has long been the Soviet Union's most nagging domestic headache. Ukrainians and Georgians, Armenians and Kazakhs, Tartars, Yakuts and Kirghiz-all have their separate histories, their languages, culture and pride; all have been conquered by the more numerous Great Russians whose rulers made Moscow their capital. The Bolshevik Revolution theoretically gave regional autonomy to the subject nationalities, but, in practice, Communist policy has intensified Great Russian chauvinism and liquidated local liberties in the name of Sovietization...
...alongside the new hospital. North Carolina's two-year medical school has been expanded into a full, four-year institution. There is also a new school of dentistry, a school of nursing, and the hospital is building a 75-bed psychiatric wing. The state, the Federal Government and local communities have cooperated in the building of 71 general hospitals, 35 health centers and 33 nursing homes. At the state capital in Raleigh last week, the North Carolina House of Representatives approved a loan fund of $50,000 a year for medical students and nurses willing to take extra work...
...young 'Ntoni sank to the running of contraband, stabbed the local policeman in a brawl and was sentenced to five years at hard labor. Dishonored by her brother's crime, the younger sister ran away and became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...