Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valley Stream...
...Albert Woll in Chicago's old Post Office. Presently they returned, accompanied by U.S. Deputy Marshal William H. McDonnell and eight gun-toting deputies. Facing the armed squadron, Sewell Avery politely told Marshal McDonnell that he would not surrender. Then a call went out to Camp Skokie Valley, just north of Chicago...
...tenth day of the battle, U.S. Liberators swooped down towards the Yellow River valley, dropped three tons of explosives on two bridges. But few cheers came from the grimy Chinese soldiers, pounded for ten days by Japanese aircraft; this token was too little, too late...
...defendant should be the U.S.'s Diamond Match Co., and that the first individual named was Diamond's secretive, 67-year-old engineer president, William Armstrong Fairburn. Match King Fairburn, who works most of the time at his secluded, tree-hedged ranch in California's Ojai Valley and rarely appears in Diamond's discreet Manhattan offices, has run Diamond like a Central American dictator since 1910, when he was called in to figure out how to make matches without poisoning match workers...
...young men of Manipur, busy dancing and throwing crimson and purple powder on one another, paused. Wedged between India and Burma, 400 miles northeast of Calcutta, 200 northwest of Mandalay and just south of the realm of Bong Wong, the Ang of Namsang. Manipur has one smooth, green valley, 50 miles long. The rest is towering, jungle-covered mountains. Lakes dot the Imphal Valley and ducks dot the lakes. British officers, stationed in India, have long known Manipur for the finest pheasant shooting east of Suez. Until last week, Manipur's tough little polo ponies, twelve hands high, thundered...