Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even Die." Archbishop Grösz (rhymes, roughly, with worse) comes from the same region as Mindszenty, was bishop of Szombathely when Mindszenty served under him as a parish priest. Like peasant-born Joseph Mindszenty, whom he succeeded two years ago as head of the Roman Catholic church in Hungary, peasant-born Grösz is a man whose character and courage are beyond question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with raised Tommy guns to get out of town, Grösz said: "I can face any kind of machine...
...Chief of Staff George Marshall in April 1945, two months after Yalta. It was prepared in the Specialists' Section of Army G2, a high-powered team of some 50 experts, most of them West Pointers, each a lieutenant colonel or better, each a specialist on some country or region of the world. Heading the project was the late Colonel Joseph Michela. The report, said the Senator, warned emphatically against bringing Russia into the Asiatic war and foretold with remarkable accuracy what would result if she were brought in. Major points...
...area. They killed vampires with torches in abandoned buildings and hollow trees, asphyxiated them with smoke in caves, destroyed them by setting fire to the dry leaves of palm trees. Last week Mexican newspapers, with sighs of editorial relief, announced that vampires had been wiped out in the Platanito region...
...other extremely delicate problem concerned with nation-wide promotion is that of judging applicants from one region against those of another. It could be easy to-accept large numbers of Western students while rejecting better qualified eastern students. Educational standards could be sacrificed through such a careless procedure...
Fairservis' theory is that the Afghanistan region was well-watered and fertile at the dawn of history. Civilization spread from the West along the Arabian Sea, through Afghanistan and Baluchistan into northern India. He suspects that it also spread northward into Central Asia, and may have reached China through Soviet Turkestan...