Word: balkanize
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...cellulose-digesting bacteria are of the aciduric group, akin to the Lactobacillus acidophilus of Bulgarian buttermilk, which (some scientists think) helps un usual numbers of Balkan rustics to fill themselves full of years. Taken in liquid form, the bacterial cultures taste like chocolate syrup. They become permanently established among the intestinal flora in about a month. Cost: $2 per person...
...great totalizator for bets on the final outcome of the war were possible, it would perhaps show that odds on the Axis were longer this spring than last. For one thing, it was getting harder for Adolf Hitler to manipulate his Balkan puppets. Steady sabotage, despite the Nazi firing squads, was one sign (see p. 31). Another was the brave defense of Yugoslavia's "Island of Freedom" (see p. 31). Still another was given last week when the Bulgarian Cabinet resigned after a majority was said to have rejected plans for Bulgaria which King Boris III brought home from...
Russia and Great Britain would love a Balkan dogfight this spring. If Hungary and Rumania fought each other instead of Russia, the second front against Germany would be ready-made by Adolf Hitler...
...Whatever German Armies achieved in [the French, Lowlands, Norwegian and Balkan] . . . campaigns pales in comparison with the task [in Russia...
Rumania. Passing through the twilight gloom of the Kazan defile, 100 miles east of Belgrade, Hitler would soon reach the historic Iron Gate, separating the Balkan and the Carpathian ranges. There, on the western border of Rumania, he might meet his stooge, General Ion Antonescu. The General's report would be grim...