Word: regional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Fascist Mola was forced to withdraw many of his troops from the Guadarrama front to tackle a dangerous situation in his rear. San Sebastian and Bilbao were still in Loyalist hands. With hostilities ceasing in the Barcelona region, Loyalists might be able to launch an attack at his rear. Out of the ground to defend these Basque cities for the Loyalists poured the Communist miners of Oviedo, hurling homemade bombs of dynamite, slashing with knives. General Mola's attack was beaten...
...happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during the War, was elected a Deputy from the province of Cagliari in Sardinia, soon found himself, apparently to his own surprise, a leader of the antiFascists in his own region...
...Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer wrote an engaging, popular book about a State that is rich in local color. Now Author Carmer has tried hard to distill the native glamor from a region where the conventional trappings of romance are not nearly so conspicuous as they are in the South. His new field is upper New York State, superficially a prosaic region of farms, sprawling industrial cities, narrow towns...
...London's Professor E. V. Appleton recorded echoes following intervals of 30 sec., which would indicate that the signals were deflected from some region far beyond the moon...
Nanda Devi lies in a region difficult of approach in the headwaters of the Ganges. The mountain itself is technically hard, being of the precipitous Materhorn type and rising sharply from a plateau 15,000 feet in elevation...