Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...place to see the tourist crop at its verdant best and worst was along a patch of the Atlantic coastline, 350 miles down from the Georgia border, 145 miles up from the southernmost Florida Key. There lies the "Miami area...
Short, spare, blue-eyed, with a flowing white beard which he tucks into his vest at mealtimes, Sculptor Maillol comes of a line of smugglers, fishermen and vine-growers who lived in Banyuls, a Mediterranean village near the Spanish border...
...that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives; in San Antonio it fell gently on the adobe houses, on the cactus and the palm trees, on the children who had never seen it before. The heaviest snow in 33 years fell...
...shortage of rolling stock (Germany, whose own rolling stock is in very bad condition, is extremely slow in returning Rumanian cars); 2) shortage of coal from Germany to stoke the engines; 3) sabotage and inefficiency along the 170-mile stretch of railroad from Oraseni, on the Rumanian border of old Poland, where Rumania hands over the oil, to Jaroslaw in German-occupied Poland. Pretty well confirmed last week was the fact that German troops, reported moving last fortnight into this part of old Poland (TIME, Jan. 29), were there primarily to operate and police this trackage. Paris heard a less...
...cross.) There are now 18 Rumanian divisions massed around Cernauti as against four in Bessarabia, which Rumania might even yield under stress, taking her stand along the River Prut. But meantime Rumania is frantically strengthening her positions from the Black Sea, along the entire length of the Russian border, and back along the entire length of the Hungarian border-honor among Balkan nations cannot be trusted...