Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widow was said to have furnished her home; a Duxbury mother found a piano that served for music lessons for her four children; a Lincoln housewife found a perfectly usable playpen for her baby. To the dumps, too, come service committees from the League of Women Voters and even local politicians in search of a ready-made audience. On one recent Sunday, a crowd of happy-go-dumping Hingham residents showed up with jugs of martinis and plates of hors d'oeuvres, proceeded to make a three-martini cocktail hour to cap off the dumping chores...
...quiet way, Far East Military Expert Lemnitzer helped build Japan's postwar defense forces, was a key figure in the successful diplomatic byplay that enabled the U.S. to keep strategic Okinawa in the face of growing local opposition. Says one Army general: "What Dulles was in civilian clothes to the Far East, Lemnitzer was in a uniform...
...letters warning them that they would be expelled if their farmer parents did not socialize. In factories, workers from farming families who would not join the collectives were fired. Finally the party ordered into the villages "500 comrades much experienced in political and organizational work" to help teams of local Communists "encourage" farmers to sign up in collectives...
...issue was the Bolivian government subsidy to tin-mine commissaries, enabling them to sell food at about 30% below city prices. Politically, it is a local asset; economically, it is disastrous, considering the fact that Bolivia's nationalized mines lost $9,000,000 last year. But when the U.S. got tired of talking and suspended aid to Bolivia, Siles was in an even worse bind. At first word that the boondoggle might end, the miners marched out on strike. The solution was a classic of doubletalk. Siles promised the U.S. to cut the subsidy gradually over a period...
...something that occurs almost daily throughout Mexico. By law, not a single item of pre-Columbian culture may be unearthed without permission; no pre-Columbian object of any value may be taken out of the country. Yet the collector's yen for these objects is so insatiable that local dealers, anthropologists, private Mexican collectors have become smugglers to fill the pipelines to the U.S. and Europe...