Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reshuffling, which was generally applauded, came at a time when voters all over Britain were showing their dissatisfaction with Churchill's six-month-old Tory government. In a new wave of local elections, the Labor Party won control of 101 borough councils and cut sharply into Tory majorities in many others. In the past month, Laborites have gained a net of 546 local government seats; the Tories have lost a net of 501. Far from panicked by the trend, the Prime Minister took the occasion to announce that he was buttressing his cabinet for "three or four years...
...thinks he can use, rather than be used by, the Reds to expedite the reforms that Rome badly needs-housing people who live in caves, purging municipal corruption, modernizing public services. "What has the Atlantic pact or what happens in Czechoslovakia to do with how Rome's local administration is run?" he asks, as he pours an interviewer cognac and coffee. Communists are old hands in dealing with men like Selvaggi...
...size of Florida, Malays and Chinese are now about equal in numbers (2,500,000 each). But only in Singapore, which is a British Crown Colony, do native-born Chinese have full British citizenship. In the peninsula's eleven other political units (nine of them still ruled by local nabobs under British "protection"), Chinese citizenship is strictly limited. Hoping to lessen this discrimination, the British in 1946 set out to organize the country into a Malayan Union. But the old Malay hierarchies, fearing that the Chinese might outvote them, threatened to revolt. The British compromised on a Federation...
Kelly, who was given a three-minute ovation at the start of his speech, had obviously been well-instructed before hand in local jokes. He mentioned "little disturbances in a place down the line that had something to do with ice cream" and added that he had heard of some trouble in Cambridge when a fellow who couldn't sleep at night went looking for his socks...
...large, local police have been a tolerant lot, not unfriendly to the demonstrations that periodically crop up in the Square. But last night the police went out for a fight and when it didn't turn up, they made one. They had given their permission for the rally. Yet they reacted to the crowd in the Square with the indignant surprise of a man who has found a herd of goats in his vegetables garden. The crowd was not particularly large nor unruly by local crowd standards. Yet the police waded into it as if it were hell bent...