Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Markos went to Kavalla in northern Greece, a tobacco center where many wretched fellow refugees from Turkey had gathered. Markos joined the Tobacco Workers' Union and the Communist Youth Organization. Nicolas Zacha-riades had just formally transformed the Socialist-Labor Party into the KKE (Kommounistikon Komma Ellados-Hellenic Communist Party) and brought it into the Third International. From then on Markos' life was the into-jail, out-ofjail of Balkan revolutionaries. Called up for army service, he went into the cavalry. "I managed to acquire good military knowledge," he says. He also acquired a dishonorable discharge...
...three months, a U.N. Commission has cooled its heels in Seoul, trying to arrange a national election and dodging Communist snipers. The Russians had flatly refused to admit the commission into Korea's Russian-occupied northern zone. Exasperated, the U.S. finally decided to schedule for May an election of its own in Korea's U.S.-occupied southern half. The Communist radio in northern Korea promptly denounced this as an imperialist plot to split Korea, called for financial contributions to support a "merciless and fierce" guerrilla campaign against the Americans. "This way," said one Communist broadcast, "the blood-boiling...
Gales churned the Ohio River wildly. The wind blew 85 miles an hour in darkened, rain-battered Toledo, knocked over radio towers, derailed freight cars. As night fell, gales and torrential rain hit northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Finally, the storm blew...
This strange region and its gradual discovery are the subject of To the Arctic!, which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson describes as "the best history of northern exploration so far written." New Jersey-born Jeannette Mirsky who, at 44, has never cried "Mush!" to a dog or put foot to floe, first published her book in 1934. But it was dropped by her publishers after the first printing, because the late...
...consistent defeats inflicted by Dixie squads on Northern teams seems to indicate that Southern lacrosse is superior to the New England brand. But the annual North-South all-star game shows the boys in blue with a one game bulge. "We would do a lot better against the Maryland teams if we met them at the end of the season," observes Coach Maddux...