Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of it all was the weather, the unspeakable weather. In the South, just as the new year began, six tornados yowled balefully out of nowhere. The worst of them tore through Cotton Valley, La. (pop. 1,500), killed 14 people and injured 250 more. Then the twister came back and messed up the wreckage...
...India appealed to the Security Council to stop Pakistan's "active aggression" against Kashmir (also known as India's "Happy Valley"). Since Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja Sir Hari Singh had aligned his state with India (TIME, Nov. 11), Moslem fighters had continually raided his country. India charged that Pakistan actively assisted the raiders. India's Premier Nehru formally warned the U.N. that, "in self-defense," India might have to invade Pakistan...
...here on Bear Creek Valley Ranch read with deep interest your piece on Bob Kleberg and the great King Ranch [TIME...
...vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground." Up here in the Hereford country of the Missouri Ozarks, no vaquero would drop his rope over a calf's neck for fear of general ridicule by everybody in the valley; if he could not get a clean throw at its front feet, he would settle for the hind feet...
Industry Creator. Midwest's success in projects for small companies brought commissions from big ones. Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) asked the institute to work on new uses for petroleum byproducts; the U.S. Government hired it to make a survey of the industrial potential of the Missouri Valley...