Word: hinterlander
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Touring the Punjab hinterland, Shriver's first stop was at Daon Paren, a village of some 300 houses and huts. Peering inside such dwelling places, Shriver saw a sick old woman lying in a rag-covered bed, asked where she could get medical aid. He was told that a health center about four miles away was the only place where medicine could be obtained. Inspecting a relatively comfortable hut, Shriver remarked: "This guy is really well off." He was quietly informed that the hut's owner sustained himself and his family by working as a taxi driver...
...reasons for Diem's election success in the hinterland is a lean exCommunist named Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, 39. Last year he accosted President Diem, told him that the reason the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas were scoring success after success lay in the shortcomings of Diem's own soldiery. "Our soldiers need social and political education," said Thao. "Their discipline is poor. They have no consideration for the people." Their "bad habits"-stealing rice, pigs and girls -were driving the villagers to the Communist cause...
Adapted by Isobel Lennart from a 1952 novel by Jon Cleary, the picture serves a slice of life in the "outback"-the vast sheep steppes of the Australian hinterland. The hero (Robert Mitchum) is a sundowner, the Aussie equivalent of a rolling stone, who drifts from bush town to bush town, job to job, while his wife (Deborah Kerr) urges him to save up, buy a farm and settle down. To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed. But as soon as he has some savings, he nicks off and goes broke...
Somewhere in the Russian hinterland last week a giant rocket hurled aloft a five-ton spaceship containing two dogs named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly), a quantity of other unspecified plants and animals, and myriad electronic gadgets for keeping radio tab on the passengers...
...away with the frontiers that currently split them three ways: one-third in Portuguese Angola, one-third in the French-oriented Congo Republic, and one-third in the Belgian Congo. A united Bakongo nation would control Matadi, the chief sea outlet for much of central Africa's vast hinterland...