Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina has always believed that she ought to be mistress of the entire La Plata watershed, which includes all of Paraguay and parts of Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil. In a sense she has been, for most of the trade of the region has had to pass down river through her territory. This circumstance made Paraguay her vassal and forced the other countries to pay heavy tribute to Argentine railroads, river boats and ports of transshipment...
...Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one of the guerrilla detachments. In a two-day engagement the Soviet patriots wiped out more than 100 enemy officers and men and forced the enemy to retreat...
...Lebanon, the tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples for political freedom, and the clash of Western imperialisms in the strategic region of Suez and the Persian Gulf...
...seven books Hamilton Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
...Haines and the Alcan Highways surmounted the usual difficulties of wilderness construction, plus some special troubles native to the region. Muskeg and niggerhead swamps, hard to locate on the air maps, had to be skirted or heavily filled. North-country rivers looped their way all over the route...