Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
...past month there had been seven, cases of violence against Nisei in the San Joaquin Valley. It seemed time for at least a gesture of law & order. Rancher Multanen was arrested, charged with "rude and threatening...
...Washington, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, whose War Relocation Authority had heckled Valley authorities for their tolerance of terrorism, sputtered with rage: "A disgrace to the bench. . . ." Justice Crosby sputtered right back. His decision, he said, was "a community arrangement." Observed one Parlier resident: if the judge had been any tougher, he would have been run out of town...
...Green Valley. This spring found the Tennessee Valley greener and richer than ever before. The river, which had once run brown with precious topsoil, was as clear as in Indian days - 21 dams had harnessed and controlled the floods...
...Luzon, Americans and guerrillas captured the Ipo dam, 25 miles northeast of Manila, and prepared to restore one-third of the capital's water supply. In the north, U.S. troops entered Balete Pass, gateway to the fertile valley where a major Japanese force was holding...