Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until last week Plouvien was just another of the quaint, peaceful villages that dot the Breton peninsula-a set pattern of small tidy houses, large untidy barns and barnyards, a few shops, a church at the crossroads. Even their names-Plouescat, Plougonven, Ploudaniel-bear the patina of time: plou is the ancient Celtic prefix for "parish...
...lake is a seven-mile stretch of deep blue mountain water, rimmed by high pine-forested ridges and fed by a brawling, canyon-hemmed river. Summer cottages dot its beaches, and beef cattle graze in a Western-story valley below. The star-spangled nights at Payette Lake are beautifully clear; only the city-bred get any feel of the banshee, the barghest, the ouphe (rhymes with out) or other beasts prominent in monster husbandry. So Idahoans discounted serpent talk. And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight...
...airborne commander, "Looey, dot dope," as unorthodox, red-tape-hating General Brereton is called by old Army friends, was going to have more chance to try new tricks than an air force command had ever given...
...checked up with the officer of a minesweeper which had been operating on the west side. He said: "Down there, the sea is so congested with floating bodies we can't avoid running them down. There was one woman in khaki trousers and a white polka-dot blouse, with her black hair streaming in the water. I'm afraid every time. I see that kind of a blouse, I'll think of that woman. There was another one, nude, who had drowned herself while giving birth to a baby. A small boy of four or five...
Tihwa (pop. 50,000), the capital of Sinkiang Province, turned out thousands of Chinese, Mohammedans, Uigurs, Uzbeks, Kazaks and Kueihuas to greet the highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain...