Word: steppeland
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Spain's other touted economy is that if the director doesn't like the weather, all he has to do is drive a little. Thus David Lean of Zhivago, who had traveled 30,000 miles to find a snowy steppeland for his winter scenes, was assured he need go no further than Soria in the Spanish Pyrenees. "Just like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went...
...Extraordinary Diet as another prelude to bold military adventure, as bold perhaps as in 1941. In Chungking there was talk that Japan would invade Siberia within 90 days. A like prediction had come from Chinese sources in 1942 at this season, when the tough Siberian mountain and steppeland is warm and dry, most suitable for campaigning. But now there were new reasons. Russia was drawing closer to her U.S. and British allies. Germany appeared to be preparing for a supreme effort against Russia in the west. If Russia was ever to be eliminated as a major power and threat...
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