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Word: districting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong showing in urban centers. Pending official figures, Ankara dopesters expected the Democrats to get 50 to 100 seats. Bayar's followers chortled that Inonii himself, revered as the successor of the great Kamal Atatürk, ran sixth in a field of 17 candidates in the Ankara district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Toward Democracy | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Last week the Moscow censor passed a report that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, head of all Soviet land forces, had been assigned to command the Odessa military district. It was as though Ike Eisenhower had been sent back to San Antonio. The Soviet press did not mention the move, but the world outside erupted with rumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: On to Odessa | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...part of Russia's war of nerves on Turkey? In 1940 Zhukov led the troops that took over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Rumania. Odessa is the military district nearest the Dardanelles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: On to Odessa | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Sokubei put it more bluntly. "The Mitsuis," he said, "must get money." Some time before 1650 he put away his two samurai swords and-like many a British aristocrat of the same period-became a brewer. Soon Mitsui sake was selling fast throughout Yedo's thirsty red-light district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Fall of the House of Mitsui | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...very weak and hungry, and nearly dead, but the natives of Ninigo looked after him until an Australian district officer came and took him to a hospital on a big island called Manus. Afterwards, Nabetari came to Tarawa by airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCEANIA: Nabetari's Voyage | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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