Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...master of satire and quick wit, Attila has made the calypso, often called Trinidad's "living newspaper," a potent force in local politics. Under his real name, Raymond Quevedo, he has been elected on the Labor Party ticket to Port-of-Spain's city council...
...ratified in this week's carnival street-dancing, it was a cinch that Attila, who had won six times before, would be the victor again. Attila had further increased his popularity by boldly protesting against the police department's censorship of calypso songs which ridiculed unpopular local officials. Sang Attila, in the last verse of his prize song: I don't think I am so loyal today...
...dressed in his greasy work clothes. After his third visit, barflies agreed he was "un chic type." As he was leaving, Baudry mentioned casually to Lulu that he would be back soon, "but I have a lot of work in my parish, you know-I'm the new local priest." When his bar friends refused to believe him, he made his next visit to Lulu's in his priest's soutane...
...plugged away at his Washington job and, by 1937, made another network bid with shows for Barbasol and Carnation Milk. Though profitable for Godfrey, these shows left the nation unmoved. He was now so firmly labeled a "local boy" that Godfrey had to threaten to go back to NBC before CBS would agree to pipe part of his early-morning show into New York. But this show caught on, and in 1944 he made his third and final assault on network listeners. Keeping his local jobs, he undertook to broadcast over CBS without salary until he had lined up some...
...influence of Levis spread, they changed a little with the times. "Alkali," a Virginia City miner, insisted on carrying rock specimens that ripped his hip pockets. The local tailor wearied of repairing them, one day seized a hammer and riveted the corners down with square iron nails. When this made Alkali practically rip-proof, Levi Strauss picked up the idea, from then on fastened all his pants' pockets with copper rivets...