Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Serb. The once-obscure Balkan officer who has thus far successfully challenged the modern world's greatest conqueror was born 47 years ago in Chachak, Serbia, in the craggy lands which he now clasps. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by an uncle, a musical Serbian colonel. Draja Mihailovich plays the mandolin excellently. He entered Belgrade's Serbian Military Academy at 15. He has been a lifelong soldier, an officer who got his training under fire. He is also profoundly a Serb. For those who know the Serbs, that fact alone would...
Serbia's rulers were often personally weak and depraved, but the Serbs in general grew hard and defiant in the schools of Turkish tyranny and European Realpolitik. They never suffered from the flabbiness that comes with ease. In the First Balkan War (1912), Serbia and her Balkan allies finally ousted Turkey...
...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...