Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feeling that Adolf Hitler is behind them, that Greater Germany is irresistible, the 800,000 Nazis who attempt to lead the 3,200,000 Germans in the Republic of Czechoslovakia (pop. 15,000,000), became highly truculent last week. Their Führer, obedient Konrad Henlein, fresh from conferences in Berlin with Göring and other Nazi bigwigs, staged a mass meeting in Karlsbad, the famed spa, delivered a series of ultimatums to Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes so outrageous as to shock even the now violently pro-German London Times...
...present the starting lineup seems pretty well settled, with Jerry Hunsaker, Van Cleveland, and Phil Hammond forming the first attack. All three are experienced men and should be able to produce plenty of goals before the end of the year provided Hammond and Hunsaker can supply the necessary pop that the rest of the attack and midfield lack. Bill Blanchard and Irving Shepard are the leading reserves for the forward positions. Both of these men saw service last year...
...through southwestern Iran what had been for years a chronic famine has now deepened into acute starvation. Emaciated Iranian citizens can be seen sitting around in streets and doorways, their bones almost sticking through their skins, their eyes seeming to pop out of their heads, lacking the energy even to brush away the swarms of flies covering their bodies. Scores of beggars greet incoming travelers. Still greatly flourishing is the opium poppy, which withstands drought, is immune from locust attacks. Despite the bustling, superficial prosperity of Teheran, all was not well last week in the Empire of the Shah...
...thump modestly along as Goodman's sidekick, decided to form his own band. Experts, pained of late by his exhibitionism, shook their heads dubiously; but last week on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, when Drummer Krupa's new orchestra got into their groove, 5,000 pop-eyed adolescents raised the roof...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...