Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...15th Century, fragments of obscure Indian tribes, having wandered across Asia and Europe, turned up in Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to gypsies. Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part...
...Eisenhower's headquarters. This week the situation was cleared up. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower and a veteran associate and boss of U.S. airmen, took over the job of running the Expeditionary Air Force. To a new job in a minor league-the Southeast Asia theater-went Sir Trafford, to become Allied air commander there...
...German navy was as large as the U.S.'s. Shepherd Friedolin began to talk about "the extension of our pastures." In 1955 continental Europe and Asia, including Russia, became German colonies. In 1960 Britain, charged with molesting a group of visiting penitents under 14 years of age, was quickly subjugated. The same year Friedolin (now revealed as a onetime general in the Wehrmacht) landed an irresistible flock in Manhattan, "this city which from today shall be named Greater Yorkville...
...each, plus almost twice as many reserves and service troops. The 70 divisions are distributed: eight in the home islands; ten in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Malaya; 20 in the Philip pines, the Netherlands Indies and Pacific islands; 32 in China and Manchuria. In southeast Asia the Japs also have 70,000 quisling troops - Burmese, Malays, Thais and a few Indians. Militarily these are an unknown quantity...
Huth calculated that immediately after the war the U.S. would want eight to ten million receiving sets; Europe, five million; Latin America, two to three million; Asia, two million ("but Asia's demand may skyrocket within a few years to 20 million sets"). "The European industry," he continued, "will be unable to cover this demand. English factories will be busy filling home orders; the German industry will be badly wrecked by air raids; and the biggest European exporter, Holland's Philips' works in Eindhoven, must be rebuilt. France and Italy [will be out of] international competition...