Word: zone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair's amusement zone covers 280 acres - more ground than the entire Paris International Exposition of 1937. Yet, although the biggest in the history of Fairs, the amusement zone sticks pretty close to any canny Midway's rule-of-three : freaks, peeks and rides. The freak shows boast no overpowering monsters: there are the pigmies and giants, giraffe-necked women and two-headed cows. But of thrill-makers, the Fair has one wow, and for peepshows, in spite of police threats, it contains more public nudity than any place outside of Bali...
...Anglo-French convention of 1839 made the Minquiers Islands an international fishing zone. Shelters were permitted on them but not stone buildings for fear they would be used as fortifications. After the World War the question of sovereignty was again raised and the Minquiers group was made part of Britain's Channel Islands...
...apologize for entering the Kalgan war zone without a military pass and shall never knowingly commit the same error in the future in any Japanese war zone in China. Any information I may have got since May 25 will never be transmitted to the Chinese side." Despite the intervention in Tokyo of British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie, Lieut. Colonel Spear was still in prison...
...Whalen had other troubles. The amusement zone, badly lit and partially unpaved, produced a near riot as angry concessionaires demanded action, urged cutting the admission fee at night from 75? to 50?. Suave President Whalen promised to have the amusement area finished this week, to provide free fireworks at night...
...rights and wrongs. . . . But today the fact of systematized aggression stares us in the face and we know only too well who the aggressors are. . . . We only have to read about some of the occurrences to the South of us to realize that even we are within the zone of their orbit...