Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believers irked Czars and Communists alike. They were hounded constantly, finally fled to Manchuria's Three Rivers Valley near Harbin in the late 1920s. There they lived peacefully until 1945, farming and hunting tiger and boar. Then the Soviet army marched in to occupy the area, threw 300 of the menfolk into slave labor camps. In 1952 the Chinese Communists, who had taken over, promised the sect a chance to migrate to Paraguay. The Old Believers sold their hunting rifles and farms, only to have the Communist government go back on its promise. But last year Peking finally softened...
Verdi was born of peasant stock near the town of Busseto in the Po Valley in 1813. When he was 18, the townsfolk sent him to Milan Conservatory, hoping that he could be trained to become Bus-seto's organist and orchestra director. But the conservatory examiners flunked Verdi; his talent for composition, they said, was "passable," but his pianoforte technique was ruined by "a faulty position of the hands and wrists." This "blow to all his pride and hope was so terrible" that Verdi never forgot, never forgave it. Helped by a friendly patron, he buckled down...
...million that Red China is pouring in, most has vanished down the well of government deficit, and Nepal has flatly refused to allow Chinese technicians inside its borders. As for recent U.S. aid-development projects in more than 1,200 villages, the ridding of the Rapti Valley of malaria-carrying mosquitos, the building of more than 600 classrooms, a $5,000,000 system of roads-it has met with an equally disheartening reception...
...dedication of those who administer it. President Dilli Regmi of the Nepali National Congress simply refuses to believe that the U.S. has built any roads at all. Singh declares that the U.S. antimalaria campaign has brought more mosquitoes into Nepal than ever. When asked about the giant Rapti Valley reclamation project, he merely shrugs, for he comes from a different part of the country: "That is an isolated place unfit for human beings...
...conducting a group of young hikers through the Chevreuse Valley when a pretty 17-year-old girl joined the party. "We had a long conversation," Father Rosi remembers. "She seemed lost, and I had the impression that I gave her a certain comfort. She asked to see me again." Six months and many talks later she told him that she was a prostitute. "Then she reformed her life. She is married now, lives in Africa, and is a courageous mother...