Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Villareale predicted five weeks ago that 300 busloads would leave from southeastern Massachusetts alone, joining with untold legions of Greyhounds from around the nation for a "unity rally" on the steps of the Iranian embassy in Washington...
...Carnival in Romans Le Roy Ladurie provides a new aperture-and another compelling view. The place is the small city of Romans in southeastern France. The year is 1580. France is still recovering from the widespread slaughter of the Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572; skirmishes still go on between Catholic and Huguenot. Town and countryside are periodically ravaged by roving bands of brigand soldiers. Class bitterness over increasingly burdensome taxes breaks out in tax strikes, urban unrest and peasant revolt. It all coils up toward Mardi Gras, culminating in a bloody midnight clash...