Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris one morning went Léon Nöel, a member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...
...region of 1°K. (about - 272°C.) certain substances lose all electrical resistance, so that an electric current flowing around a lead ring, for example, keeps going indefinitely. Liquid helium loses so much viscosity or "stickiness" that it climbs up surfaces against gravity...
...region of greatest danger was the area opposite the narrow Strait of Dover, which German guns and air power seemingly made impassable for all but the lighter units of the British Navy. With only these light vessels to oppose them, this region obviously became the most tempting for a German landing...
...regular reader of your Letters, I have recently gone out of my way to do some canvassing of public opinion in the Rocky Mountain region on my own hook. . . . The almost unanimous opinion of those to whom I have talked seems to be as follows...
...Hitler had spent, according to French estimate, 400,000 lives since Tuesday, but still the young German masses surged forward, still their progress was aided by fresh mechanized fleets to supplement human flesh. Then the Germans began their double envelopment of Paris with a break-through from the Amiens region and up the Seine, west of the capital. That was when the Government left...