Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain blizzard near Waira-kei and had the presence of mind to call for divine help. Down from the Maoris' ancestral (and warmer) homeland, Ha-waiki, came the fire goddess. Wherever she stepped, a volcano bloomed. She warmed Ngatoro-i-rangi so bounteously that the whole region where the blizzard was blowing is still boiling over...
...central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud as ever...
...unexplained disappearances along the river, many more than could be accounted for by accidental drownings or by voluntary departures to go to the city, or farther into the jungle, or to escape a nagging wife. The crocodiles got the rest, said the natives glibly. After all, in a region where the muddy Congo stretches more than a mile from bank to bank and is dotted with marshes and islands, crocodiles swarm, seizing the careless child, grasping by the foot the woman who washes clothes in the river. But other informants whispered of bodies found in the river strangely mutilated, without...
...Agitate Until . . ." It is in Nyasaland, the poorest region of all, that the cry is loudest. Though the Nyasas benefit most from the federation (for every pound sterling they pay to the central government, they get back two in subsidies), they look with horror at the example of more prosperous Southern Rhodesia, where a kind of apartheid exists and the blacks are plagued by pass laws. curfews, and even segregated phone booths. Stirring up the Nyasas' restiveness is Dr. Hastings K. Banda, the prosperous physician who returned last summer from a self-imposed exile in London to campaign...
...moat for a generation, putting a chasm between city and suburbs with the most bitter refusal to entertain any cooperation with the city. It was a compound tragedy of Boston that it was saddled with Curleyism in the period of its most severe economic pinch, as capital of the region that saw its major industries, textiles and shoes, sliding away. Newer cities still expanding every decade could absorb the graft and woeful inefficiency of city machine patronage in their burgeoning growth. But Boston was drained...