Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hours later was dead. By then, however, he was a public hero: the city park board refused to sell his carcass for $10,000 to a Washington, D.C. furrier; instead, he will be regally mounted in the zoo. Quick as a fox, and resourceful as a beaver, a local department store put leopard T-shirts on sale, sold more than 300 to the city's leopard-minded small fry in one afternoon...
...went off [reminiscing] about an anti-patriotic act of mine as far back as 1945, when I had gone shooting ducks with [British] General Oxley at Belem, on the Danube . . . [saying] that he had been there personally, shadowing us in the guise of a local huntsman...
...Russian election is ostensibly run by a 27-man central electoral committee connected with a network of regional and local committees that spreads into each of the country's 1,302 electoral districts. Actually, the show is run-under the sharp eyes of the Communist Party's Central Committee and its Politburo-by Georgy Malenkov, the party's chief organizer. In the past two years, Malenkov has quietly risen to a place in the Soviet hierarchy second only to Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov...
After the bigwigs, the nominating rallies pick some real candidates-usually local workers, peasants or minor officials. About three weeks before election day, the party passes the word on the nominees it considers most worthy; the others promptly withdraw. The candidates thus chosen (about 80% of them members of the Communist Party) form a single ticket of what is known as the "bloc of Communist and nonparty candidates." The system does not provide for any opposition candidates...
...years ago, partly because of his local-associations and partly because he was fed up with U.S. income taxes, Benny became a citizen of El Salvador. Says Benny, whose fortune is estimated at $25 million: "Everything I have I got from El Salvador, and I intend to leave it all here." Last week he proudly noted that the 500,000th patient had been treated at Hospital Benjamin Bloom...