Word: watered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village of Mikro Hori, near Karpenisi, is locally renowned for its clear water and beautiful girls. One of the village's brightest jewels was Marianthi Antonopoula, a delicate girl with thick taffy-colored hair. Marianthi now recalls that she hated the "monarcho-fascist" enemies of the "people's democracy." Also, she yearned for adventure and romance. One day, a year ago, she left the village and sought out a battalion of guerrillas who had taken over a nearby monastery...
...bombs went off according to plan. According to one eyewitness, "the balloons appeared to rise to about 4,500 ft. Then they exploded in midair or fell into the water, or, blown by a sudden southeast wind, sped over the city and dropped on the besiegers. Venetians, abandoning their homes, crowded into the streets and squares to enjoy the strange spectacle . . . When a cloud of smoke appeared in the air to make an explosion, all clapped and shouted. Applause was greatest when the balloons blew over the Austrian forces and exploded, and in such cases the Venetians added cries...
...China's farmers, the time of the annual shui tsai (water calamity) had come again. The muddy Yangtze, gorged with weeks of heavy rains, was spreading over more than 1,000 miles of south central China's rice bowl. To the north, "China's Sorrow," the great Yellow River, raced angrily over the broad Shantung flatlands...
...another KLM Constellation,* they had sat out the ordeal of a dangerous, 3,200-mile over-water flight, made necessary by India's pro-Indonesian ban on landings by Dutch aircraft. For the trip back, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their...
Cardus clerked for an insurance firm, learned cricket beside a rubbish dump and set himself a course of reading that would have floored an Oxford don. After listening to a light opera one evening, he discovered that his mind "retained music as the kidneys secrete water." (Now, after reading in bed at night, Cardus switches off the lamp, selects some favorite composition from his head and conducts an imaginary concert before falling asleep...