Word: zone
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...crisis," declared Adenauer. "I intend to show that the Federal German Government and I personally have close ties with this city." After touring the city, Adenauer called a huge press conference, took pointed notice of the spate of refugees. "There seems to be a growing panic in the Soviet zone," declared the doughty old Chancellor, suggesting that West Germany might soon offer the hapless East German people 5,000 tons of butter to raise their ration. "The latest in a series of Western provocations," sputtered East Berlin's Neues Deutschland...
Although it cannot prevent the frequent droughts that parch the high plains, the Weather Bureau has learned their meteorological causes and, to a degree, how to predict them. Like most major weather events in mid-latitudes, they can be blamed on the planetary wind that circulates around the temperate zone at high altitude. Its general motion is west to east, but it often veers to the north or south in great horizontal waves. In the bends of the waves are "ridges" of high pressure and "troughs" of low pressure, which affect the movement of the winds on the earth...
...that month, representatives of the U.S., Britain and Russia sat down in London to carve Germany into postwar occupation zones, agreed to a "special Berlin area," which would be jointly administered by the Allies deep within the Soviet zone. Since the occupation zones were expected to be temporary-and since the West had not yet learned to doubt Soviet promises-the Allies failed to insist on written guarantees for access to the city through the surrounding Russian zone. By March 1945, the Allied armies under General Eisenhower were near enough to Berlin to seize the city for the West...
...leaders of the Chinese Communist Party have hatched, without daring to formulate it categorically, a plan for the division of world Communism into two zones, a so-called Western zone, for which the U.S.S.R. should be responsible, and a so-called Eastern zone under the People's Republic of China." This plan has "a flavor of racialism about it contrary to the principles of Communism." ¶ The Chinese have set up special centers in Asia and Africa for "subversive intrigue" against Moscow.* ¶ When Russian "interests more than ever demanded a determined policy of coexistence with the countries hostile...
...were still belting homers at a prodigious rate. Last week Yankee Mickey Mantle blasted a 450-ft. inside-the-park four-bagger off Yankee Stadium's centerfield wall. Teammate Roger Maris, whose 28 home runs have turned his right ear into a more tempting target than the strike zone, ran into a dry spell, but San Francisco's Willie Mays took up the slack, collected three homers in one game. Even the seventh-place Chicago Cubs got into the act, hitting 17 in six games. Batters poled 112 home runs in six days, boosted big league totals...