Word: siberias
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...Diamantopoulos, routed to Athens via Siberia, found the tedious ten-day train ride much duller than Odysseus' wanderings. From his window he saw no Sirens, Circes or Cyclopes, only desolate sidings and troop trains drumming west...
...State Department officials this week emphatically denied a story that the U. S. is working on a deal with Russia to acquire the use of Siberia's air bases...
...Most engaging aspect of the situation, however, lay directly across the Sea of Japan. There lay Vladivostok, which since the Japanese annexation of Korea has become the "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan." There lay the Maritime Provinces of the U.S.S.R. and, inland, all of Siberia that a hungry Japan could swallow. The prospect was enough to make the Japanese militarists temporarily forget all about Southward Ho! Furthermore, if Germany takes western Russia, Japan may have to invade Siberia in self-defense...
...deterrents were to be encountered across the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok is ringed with fortifications. Beneath the cold waters of its harbor lurk submarines, possibly 75 or 100. Within bombing range of Siberian airdromes are all of Japan's paper cities. And guarding Vladivostok and all of eastern Siberia are two special Red Banner Far Eastern Armies, garrisoned and equipped to stand a long siege; mobile, well-trained, efficiently commanded by General of Army Josef Rodionovich Apanasenko. In 1938 the Japanese Army ran into the Red Banner and came out second best...
...matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater, were successful. The Siberian meteorite was perhaps contraterrene, the Arizona meteorite of earthlike matter...