Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plagued Villages. Early explorers told tall tales about fortified villages of agricultural Indians along the Missouri River. By the time the permanent white settlers flooded into Nebraska a few generations later, these people had almost vanished. Then the region was dominated by the fierce, nomadic Dakotas, a branch of the Sioux that had formerly been of minor importance. Archaeologists of the Smithsonian Institution, racing to beat the great dams rising along the Missouri, have been excavating Indian sites on the river bottoms. They now confirm the old tall tales...
...last week had a few words of advice: "Come south, young man." Since World War II, Ayers pointed out tat the 27th anniversary of the founding of Wooster School in Danbury, Conn., capital has been pouring into the South. Even so, said Ayers, "the South is still an undeveloped region." Youth, said he, would discover, as Northern industry had, that in the South "competition is not so keen as it is in other regions," and "condiditions are so much better and success much easier...
Back from the globe's Middle East crossroads, John Foster Dulles got down from an Air Force Constellation at Washington airport one evening last week, the first U.S. Secretary of State ever to have visited the vast, strategic region between the Aegean and the Ganges. Dulles and his party, including Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen, had bridged an arduous 20,000 miles in 20 days, listened and talked to the rulers of twelve countries inhabited by nearly half the people of the non-Communist world...
...independent of the rest of Russia for their oil and gasoline. Refinery equipment, which the U.S. shipped to Russia under lend-lease, is in operation . . . Production now may be as high as 3,500,000 bbls. per year. About 40% of Russia's oil comes from the Baku region in the Caucasus . . . [which, with] oil from the Ukraine and from the satellites, supplies the Red armies in the West...
...regressed to a scene in which she felt she had just been born. She was choking from something wound tightly around her neck. She had no idea what this could be. I asked her to trace it. Her hand went up to her neck and then . . . down to the region of her navel-'It comes from my tummy.' " This patient also had an idea that she had been an unwanted child, and described two burning sensations when she believed that her mother had been trying to cause an abortion. Despite her conscious ignorance of biology, she told...