Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time. Tidwell began his search for it in 1947 simply because he thought it might contain the origin of the phrase "up the salt river," meaning "to defeat a man politically." He collected everything he could on Actor Hackett's tours. He scoured the libraries of the Allegheny region, checked with rare-book dealers. Finally a colleague gave him an idea: if the play appeared in London, it must have received the permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Tidwell had the Lord Chamberlain's files searched, at last found the clue he was looking for. The place that...
...Lightning Joe" Collins got off to a remarkably confident start. "I have come out to Indo-China," he told a press conference, "to take measures to save this region from Communism. I have come to bring every possible aid to the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and to his government only . . ." Collins was politely telling French and Vietnamese intriguers that Diem, for all his weaknesses, was America's man, and that they had better get behind Diem if they wanted U.S. sympathy or assistance. The Vietnamese national army, he indicated, must give up any thought of a coup...
Then, as Lowell said, the Gold Coast became "engulfed in the march of democracy." Or, as another writer expressed the change, the Coast--once the home of the social and proper--became "a region of outer darkness...
...Russia faces a severe shortage of grain. Drought and storms had heavily cut har vests in the Ukraine and the Volga region. The Kremlin's long-range remedy - Party Secretary Khrushchev's grandiose scheme for plowing up virgin land in Siberia and Kazakhstan - had not proved as painless as had been promised. Though an area greater than the total cultivated land of Great Britain had been plowed up, it had been done only by snatching technicians and tractors from West Russian farms, and when those ran out, by drafting men and women from their villages and factories. Then...
...peasants, also squatting there, who have come to tell him their troubles. In this way, U. N. Dhebar has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the poor people's problems. Though an ascetic, Dhebar is also a fighter. He scraped up a police force that rid his region of dacoits, cruel bandits whose leader enjoyed cutting off his victims' noses...