Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia gets the whole Rybachi Peninsula dominating Petsamo's port of Liinahamari, which Russia returns to Finland though retaining the right of free transit for Red goods and persons across this "Finnish corridor" to Norway and Norway's ice-free port of Kirkenes...
...those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage, no correspondents were permitted to telephone anything out of Stockholm for 24 hours...
...first visited Madrid in 1826, Spain's empire and glory and even Goya were gone.* All that was left was picturesqueness and a sort of sunset charm, but that was enough to entrance the whimsical New Yorker. Probably the most uncritical foreign observer who ever appeared on the Peninsula, he took to the high life of Spain's capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his dashing hostesses was the Duchess of Benavente, who hated parsimony. On one occasion when the French Ambassador held...
...Balkans have been more or less in an uproar. The Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bulgars, Albanians, Rumanians all had their go at the Sultan and then fell to fighting among themselves. Half the time these little nations fought as the puppets of greater European Powers, and the Peninsula's reputation as the tinderbox of Europe was well-earned...