Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with the killer still uncaught, Bishop Socche decided to invoke an unusually severe measure of church discipline. He placed San Martino and the surrounding region under an interdict. He thundered from his pulpit that unless police promptly solved this murder "by the children of Cain" he would tell the whole world of "the abject terror that weighs down on our countryside. . . . Should someone kill your bishop . . remember that [he] fell because he wanted [to end] conditions imposed on the majority by a few criminals...
...disease, called onchocercosis, is apparently of African origin. First found in Guatemala, it spread into Chiapas with migrations of coffee pickers; a smaller outbreak in Oaxaca was attributed to pilgrims who had visited a Guatemalan shrine. The Inter-American highway is now opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...
...reconstructing the Viru Valley region, the diggers can span the whole sweep of the human cycle, from its primitive beginnings to rigor mortis...
...intending blasphemy, his U.S. assistants called him "Todd Almighty." He was trying to change the geography of a valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...
Well above Sharecroppers. In the country reconstruction is more advanced than in the cities. The average village is at least one-third rebuilt, with warm, clean log houses well thatched and chinked. The Ukraine is Russia's richest agricultural region; in food and housing its peasants now have a living standard "well below that of an Iowa farmer, but well above that of a Southern sharecropper." This spring the planting was 80% of prewar normal, but drought has already almost halved the expected-and desperately needed-1946 crop...