Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since such Moscow pressure often means merely a drive for political concessions. This time even the ethnology was flimsy; Turks said the claimed area's Georgian and Armenian population is under 2%. The Kremlin had larger considerations. On the whole vast sweep of Russia's western and southwestern border, Turkey is the one country without a pro-Soviet regime. Russia wants to anchor the line. If its pressure could bring a Moscow-influenced Turkish government, Russia might forget her claim to the coastal region...
...Quite unintentional," said the Devil. "I have no religious prejudices. When The Gauntlet opens, this Wingo is studying at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has married 'a tiny, merry raindrop of a girl' who has bobbed hair (it is 1923) and insists on being called Kathie instead of Katherine. She is also pregnant, and the Reverend Wingo is wondering where he is going to get the money for the delivery. So he goes to his friend, the Reverend Page Musselwhite, and tells him: 'I want to find Truth. It seems to me that at times...
Myth v. Fact. The Russians may be stripping Manchuria's factories, but there is no evidence of it in Suichung. This southwestern outpost of Jap and Russian occupation has only one factory-a mercury refinery erected years...
Deposed Dragon. First he moved against China's strong war lord, one-eyed General Lung Yun, the rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...highbrow? Anthropologists have long and solemnly argued the relative braininess of long-headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...