Word: hinterlands
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Early in his radio career Robson found himself being rapidly "sucked into the hinterland of advertising"-bridge, cocktail parties, etc. For some reason he imagined that the way to get on with his job was to make himself socially objectionable. He expanded his mustache (a fixture on & off from his 19th year) to a full beard, wore dirty brown corduroy suits, bought a yellow chow dog to ride beside him in his bathtub-sized yellow Renault roadster. He became socially unsought-after. A Hollywood urchin finally shamed him out of it with the old standby: "Get a horse...
...mejor" over the air, all the parrots got mike fright.) Mejoral religious calendars (which devout Latin Americans love-see cut), joke books, pamphlets on how to love, how to read a horoscope, how to recognize an airplane, flooded the Hemisphere; 150 sound, movie and poster trucks stormed its hinterland...
Across the central Asiatic wastes in China's far Northwest hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...fame reached the Argentine hinterland, where last week bands of gypsies, having elected Mihailovich honorary chieftain, were raiding cattle ranches and scrupulously setting aside their loot in an aid-to-Mihailovich fund. †"Partisans" was originally an American word for guerrilla bands in the Colonial wars between the British and French. Later it was applied to such groups as "The Green Mountain Boys" in the Revolution and to Cantrell's Guerrillas in the Civil War. Partisans were active in the Napoleonic wars and the Russian Revolution. The name now designates Communist-led and other leftist guerrillas in Europe...
...leader envisioned the Northwest's potentially rich 1,950,754 sq. mi. (pop. 21,000,000) as a new home for millions of Chinese from overpopulated areas. His San Min Chu I (principles of free government) have been brought by war to southern provinces once considered a political hinterland. So now night the northwest provinces be woven into the pattern of Chinese national unity...