Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local experts concede little chance of the prohibition referendums passing. Each is clearly worded to prohibit a specific type of liquor: whiskey of all sorts, beers and ales, and wines. Similar referendums have been voted down...
College politicos will culminate weeks of hectic electioneering today when they attempt to get out the votes at local balloting stations all day, and spend a tension-packed night at numerous TV-beer parties...
From reports of agents within Red China, and from day-by-day analysis of local Red newspapers and Red Chinese documents, the American Federation of Labor last week compiled a grisly box score of killings committed by Mao Tse-tung's Red Chinese regime. Among them: ¶Landlords or village despots-4,970,000. ¶Kuomintang (Nationalist) reactionaries-2,950,000. ¶Bandits-2,600,000. ¶Treacherous merchants-875,663. ¶Slave laborers impressed into the Red army and worked to death or assigned to the suicide units used in "human sea" assaults...
...years guidebooks to Europe have warned travelers to Naples to keep a firm hand on their luggage and an eye peeled for pickpockets. In the openly larcenous days of World War II, a pack of local thieves once made off with a whole shipload of sugar-ship & all. Last spring when Achille Lauro, Naples' wealthiest shipowner, took office as mayor, he promised to clean up the permanent Neapolitan crime wave. "We must operate like surgeons," he told his police force, who promptly went to work rounding up hundreds of pickpockets. Plainclothesmen roamed the streets in squads of three...
...Kiss. Rodin had three carvings made of his white-marble couple, and the one at the Tate is the last and best. There was a public furor in 1913 when its owner, a private collector named Edward Warren, lent it for exhibition in a Sussex town hall: local puritans draped a sheet over the nude figures. But since 1939, The Kiss has stood in prominent and honored display in the Tate's hall of sculpture. Britons are used to it now-and proud of it. Last month they learned to their dismay that The Kiss does not really belong...