Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great massacre by the Turks that aroused such intense feeling in the United States. After two months in the jail where punishments such as the one mentioned were the daily disciplinary action, Harautune was led away with 800 other prisoners, tied together in groups of ten to the "valley of death...
...They took us to quite an extensive valley where 100,000 Armenians were killed before us. Seeing that immediate death awaited me, I took the blade of a pen knife which I had stuck to my hair with wax, and cut the rope which tied me to the other nine...
Besides these major agricultural areas, there are other small but very productive districts, notably the mountain-locked valley of the Maritsa in Bulgaria-famous for its tobacco and its roses-the plains of Macedonia just to the south, the valleys of brace north of Salonika...
...through the mountains of Transylvania into the plain of the lower Danube, the route General von Falkenhayn took when he conquered Rumania in 1916. But the main route to Istanbul leads through Belgrade to Nish and thence through Sofia and down through the rich Bulgarian plain and the Maritsa Valley. From Nish through another pass is a route down the Vardar River to Salonika on the Aegean, a port which would serve as one terminus of an alternate route, by sea, through Suez to the East...
...which gave him a jumping-off place on the far side. Thence an Italian Army, unless it meets opposition from the forces of some real power, could make its way through Greece, or via Monastir in Yugoslavia to Salonika. From that point it could either ascend the Vardar River Valley towards Nish, or if that route is blocked by Hitler, make its way into Bulgaria up the Struma and Maritsa Valleys, or along the coast toward the Dardanelles...