Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leonarda Cianciulli, wife of a Government clerk, had 14 children. On her husband's mean pay it was hard to get food, soap and candles to light their rustic home amid the ricefields and stunted mulberry trees of the Po Valley. But she had imagination. To the villagers of Correggio she was known as a poetess and fortune teller; lovelorn women came up the canal path to her whitewashed door, with a few coppers for the cards...
Without intending blasphemy, his U.S. assistants called him "Todd Almighty." He was trying to change the geography of a valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...
Grade A. In Little Valley, N.Y., A. L. Milks felt right at home as a director of the Dairymen's League...
...first 24 hours, the U.S. tie-up had jammed traffic on Mexican railroads, communicated itself to Canadian lines. Fortunes in ripening crops-lettuce at Salinas, citrus fruits at Redlands, vegetables in the Rio Grande Valley-faced destruction...
Technical Sergeant Gus T. Brown, Luling, Tex.: "I landed halfway down a mountainside and found myself buried to the waist in snow. ... I kept warm by making a shelter of my parachute. I saw a light across the valley and started yoo-hooing and heard an answer. Someone called 'Amerikano?' We turned and said 'yes' and they hollered back 'Chetniks.' They came running down toward us and we hollered with joy, so they started kissing us and we started kissing them, beard...