Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These wild and fantastic rumors were sent out by a reputable news gathering association, acting, of course, in perfect good faith, but ignoring the fact that it is never safe to accept, as true, stories from one Balkan country about the internal affairs of another, and that all Balkan news coming out of Vienna should be regarded with great suspicion. The same agency that sent out the Vienna-Belgrade stories had its own correspondent in Greece who could have readily verified or disproved them, and who would have undoubtedly sent them in himself if they had been founded on fact...
TIME ignored the Greco-Balkan rumors...
Although "swine" is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments, its use by squat, choleric Stefan Raditch for perhaps the one thousandth time in his life produced an astounding effect...
...recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the royal arms and rampant lion of Bulgaria. Figuratively rubbing greasy eyes, the pedagogues stared hard at Black Mustache, and recognized at last His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, 34 and still the most eligible of Balkan bachelors...
...Capt. Wilkins-Australian adventurer, photographer in the Balkan War, cameraman for Stefansson in his North...