Word: uplands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the 1,500 delegates were "hilakatas," elected heads of rural groups of the ancient Indian communes which have survived from the time when the Inca Empire ruled the Andean upland...
...assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled side-streets, or back to the upland milltown . . . with its grope-movie and its poolroom lit by gas, carry me back to the days before my wife put on weight, back to the years when beer was cheap and the rivers really froze in the winter...
...times. He was interested, beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
Riding Thai war elephants, slithering through the upland jungles afoot, backed up by slit-eyed little Siamese soldiers from feckless Thailand, the invaders swarmed through the mountain passes on the Thailand-Burma border. They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban. Every Briton, every Colonial in the force that backed up before his advance knew what the enemy was after...
Last week Japan offered subsidies of $20 an acre for the conversion of mulberry groves into cereal patches. The Government wants a 20% shift into wheat, beans and other vegetables which, like mulberry trees, can be grown on Japan's hilly, upland plots. (Rice, the Japanese staple, must be grown under water, takes up most of the Empire's flat, lowland acreage.) Cereals, which hungry Japanese could eat, were obviously better than silk which Japan could not sell...