Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least, as seen from abroad), he is burning to teach it to others. He distributes good and bad grades with the same lack of discernment. Since nothing resembles anything at home, the cooking seems indigestible, the beds uncomfortable, the trains not on time, the civil servants unconscientious . . . The best local wines inspire distrust in him. The worst of rot-guts fills him with joy if it reminds him of what he drinks at home...
...industrious little home town (its chief product: shoelaces) near Lyons. As often as he can, Pinay locks his desk in the Hotel Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling discovery: high prices are caused not simply by "greedy capitalists," as the Socialists and Communists would have it, but by "thrifty" French housewives...
...transmitter building is a great, three-storied, windowless structure painted battleship grey. Out of one side of it pokes a copper tube 86 ft. long. This is the giant lead-in, which local civilians once suspected was an atomic...
With a tuition of $1 per month per student, Rosary is hardly selfsupporting. Despite local contributions, nearly the full $87,000 cost of the new building had to be met from outside funds. Chief source of these funds is a near $1,000,000 earmarked last year by the church for "Catholic Missions Among the Colored People and the Indians." Such funds have been funneled mainly into school construction. Result: in the U.S. there are now 329 Catholic elementary schools for Negroes, most of them in the South, teaching 72,554 pupils...
...will do field work either as a staff member of a local school system or as part of a social-science research team...