Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will devote myself to cleaning the house; otherwise, with corruption rampant in the army and administration, we will get nowhere." With that, he ordered the arrest of the province chief and two aides in the coastal province of Binh Dinh on charges of pocketing $134,000 intended to reimburse local peasants whose land had been expropriated for a U.S. air base...
...organization. The nucleus of his new organization-a "grand alliance" of loyal government workers, military men and Red Guards-is well established in Pe king, Shanghai and five of China's 26 provinces and regions. But in other areas, the Cultural Revolution has only succeeded in breaking down local organization without supplanting it with any workable substitute...
...voice of conservatism in the church comes from a group called Concerned Presbyterians, which has a full-time field director who lobbies for its outlook with local congregations, and whose members help support a new and extremely orthodox seminary in Jackson, Miss. Concerned Presbyterians fear that the church's increasing involvement in social issues is a radical departure from its historic traditions. The group, explains its president, Miami Realtor Kenneth Keyes Sr., "would like to return the church to its basic purpose-leading unsaved souls to Christ. We think that the individual Christian should be involved...
...There he sallies forth as a singing bullfighter impaled on the horns of a dilemma. A fop as a matador, a flop as a troubadour, he has decided to leave the corrida and seek a stage career. Down to his last peseta, he desperately accepts a dare by the local impresario (Adolfo Celi), who agrees to book him into his theater on one condition: Sellers must seduce Britt Eklund (Mrs. Peter Sellers offstage), an ice-cold big-league golddigger whose favorite phrase is "Mine...
...Oliver, Stilbourne is an awful shambles from which he must escape. He is the classic adolescent-ruthless, secretive and vulnerable; few better studies have been written of his condition. He wrestles with sacred and profane loves, one represented by Imogen, a local beauty and culture snob who is headed for a cathedral marriage, and the other by Evie, the town crier's pretty daughter, a "secular" sexpot with eyes like black plums. For Oliver, a chapel-going apothecary's son, marriage is unthinkable with either, even when he gets Evie pregnant (or so she lets him think...