Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve-room villa, paid for it by selling $56,000 worth of jewels. From the little king's personal fortune in England (estimated at $6,300,000) the British government doled out enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death...
...foehn* is a warm, dry wind that tumbles, sometimes with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...
...news was relayed to the government of Premier Themistocles Sophoulis by an army radioman in Macedonia and by a destroyer which had picked it up at sea. A spokesman for General Markos Vafiades, guerrilla chieftain, had proclaimed formation of a new northern state -the "First Provisional Democratic Government of Free Greece." Chief of state: Markos Vafiades...
...North Bay, Ont., two Canadian Communists clambered aboard a train on which Mike Moskal, 22, a Ukrainian D.P., was riding to a new job in a northern Ontario gold mine. They told him some very unkind things about Canada, handed him propaganda leaflets, tried to talk him into giving up, going back to Russia. The same thing happened, on the same trip, to Joe Trhlen, John Sanajko, Myroslaw Blauk, 50-odd other D.P.s. Said Mike Moskal: "Was no good. Didn't like...
...done at least by a separate order, and not classified in the same sentence as dehydrated potato flour." Some M.P.s laughed, and Lord William rounded on them. "I see nothing to laugh about," he cried. "It is an insult to one of the finest foods produced in the northern hemisphere...