Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Athens reported heavy troop movements and concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift...
...weathermen admitted that they could not compete. Cold record for the U.S.: -66° F. at Yellowstone Park on Feb. 6, 1933. North America's coldest place is in Canada's lower Mackenzie Valley, where the thermometer at Fort Good Hope has fallen...
...circ. 2,200) Sonoma (Calif.) Index-Tribune had a new, big-name columnist last week, and had him all to itself. His name: General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, lately boss of the A.A.F. During the war Hap Arnold bought a ranch in Jack London's famed Valley of the Moon, and told his next-door neighbors, co-Publishers Walter and Celeste Murphy, that he'd like to write for their weekly some time. They believed it a fortnight ago when they saw his first contribution, a bucolic homily titled Back to the Farm. Excerpts...
...Nile Valley, which teems with many strange forms of lower animal life, lives a terrifying snail. It spreads a parasitic disease, schistosomiasis, which has afflicted Egyptians since the Pharaohs; the parasite's eggs have been found in preserved human viscera 3,000 years old. For the past five years, a hardbitten, stubborn-jawed, 70-year-old U.S. doctor named Claude Heman Barlow has worked mightily to deliver Egyptians from this ancient plague. His specialty: killing snails...
...than a politician, he is generally respected (even by the Reds whose saboteurs persistently blow up his rails). Handicapped by continuing warfare and overwhelming shortages, Yu gets more credit for intelligent and sustained effort than for tangible results. One realistic objective: to get all the railroads in, the Yangtze Valley and South China up to prewar levels next year...