Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Regions & Spheres. Of the victorious powers, only the Big Three have an industrial plant big enough and varied enough to support modern war. This sharp concentration naturally produced a tendency for other states to group themselves around the three strong ones, and for the three Great Powers to try to run things in their own regions. Because their power is naval and their vital interests are worldwide, the British are not so deeply enmeshed in "regionalism" as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union is creating a "sphere of influence" in the states along its borders...
Chlanna nan con, thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil!* Not since 1745 has this most ferocious of Scottish battle cries sent a chill through England's Border region. But last week the horrors of a porridge famine threatened Scotland. The British War Office commandeered all available oatmeal stocks to feed liberated Europe. Said the London Daily Mail with massive understatement: "Protests are likely...
...other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado's Chil dren, The Longhorns - TIME, March 17, 1941) glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons, in pubs, manor houses, railway carriages, on country meadows and London sidewalks...
...normally smoke as much, then you might double that number. . . . Take four [digitalis] tablets daily for one or two weeks. . . . Report to the doctor with the following complaints: You do not feel well and are short of breath after exertions. . . . Occasionally you have attacks of pain in the heart region. . . . There was cold sweat on your forehead during the attack and you had a feeling as though you were going to die. The doctor will probably have an electrocardiogram done, which . . . will show typical signs of a disease calling for ... removal from the strains of front life...
...gave free rein to the politician's love of rolling syllables (Maine is the only one-syllable state name in the Union). With profound respect for a great democrat, Congress named three tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy - only to find the people of the region stubbornly continuing to call them what they always had: Willow Creek, Big Hole and Stinking Water...