Word: bulgaria
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...native of Bulgaria may I be allowed to voice a protest against "The Balkan Touch," TIME, Feb. 3 [describing the disappearance of Wild Bill Donovan's wallet in Sofia...
Individually most of my countrymen are too honest and too inept to filch anything smaller than the moomoo's egg. Nationally Bulgaria has never shone in the badger game of territorial expansion...
...only petty larceny I ever committed was the theft of a pocketful of peaches in Aitos, Bulgaria, in 1903. I was ten years old and hungry. In 1932 when I visited Bulgaria I expiated this crime by buying a cartful of peaches and distributing them to a dozen youngsters...
...Balkans, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Turkey all cowered before German threats, leaving Greece to face the probable alternatives of an enforced peace or attack by Germany...
...Bulgaria, in the midst of terrible fear of being overrun by the Nazi Army, looked about and began to realize that it was already overrun. There were not many Germans in Bulgaria, probably not more than 5,000. But Bulgarians thought they saw them everywhere. They saw Germans in ski clothes leave Sofia hotels early every morning in automobiles. They saw Germans in civilian overcoats driving through the countryside by the truckload. They saw Germans shoring up bridges, building up the shoulders of highways, stocking airfields with gasoline...