Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poise a fountain pen above the middle of a map of South America, jiggle the lever until a blob of ink falls and you have Paraguay, an irregular region about 200 miles wide and 300 miles long in the middle of the continent. For about a month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator...
...planes went out to circle the front. Monotonously their radios droned directions: A body of Ethiopians had gathered behind such & such rocks on hill so & so. Within ten minutes Italian gunners had the range and were dropping high explosives on those same rocks. But it was hard going. Not irregular white-robed tribesmen but regular drilled and uniformed troops were opposing the Italians. They, too, had artillery and knew how to shoot. For the first time since the war started, Italians had the uncomfortable sensation of shells bursting on their side of the line...
...reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which can be hooked together in a serial number for classified filing and quick comparison...
...some method of decimation is both practicable and necessary. At irregular regular intervals, certain books, perhaps twenty-five a day, should be inspected before and after use. If during the time they are out, they are found to have been marked, the offender can easily be traced by means of the charge-cards signed before every book is removed...
...Selassie's favorite son-in-law, swart, smart, bearded little Ras Desta Demtu. Two years ago he traveled to the U. S., paid an official call on President Roosevelt, presented him with two lion pelts (TIME, July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General Graziani's flank from the difficult waterless lands of Ogaden Province...