71.   The longer, more interesting route over country roads meanders through timeless villages with their medieval churches and castles.

72.   The poor resent the neglect of the central government that has left them in wretched villages with no schools, hospitals, roads or electricity.

73.   The Russians brought in thousands of troops and circled the village with tanks and artillery.

74.   The Russian army battered the village with tanks, howitzers and machine guns, but failed to silence the rebels.

75.   The role of Gojko Susak, the Croatian defense minister, in starting the fighting in Eastern Slavonia by attacking a mainly Serb village with a grenade is revealed.

76.   The train stops frequently in the center of small towns and villages with streets so narrow we can reach out and shake hands with people hanging out their windows.

77.   The young man had made many mistakes, but surely one of the bigger ones was to seek shelter in a nearby village with Pappu, his brother-in-law.

78.   There to study the local dialect, she also soaked up stories from women in villages with names like Andelsbuch, Egg, and Grohldorf.

79.   They sent troops to every village with an opium dealer.

80.   They go from village to village with the knight pretending to slay the seemingly threatening but really quite beguiling dragon, who only plays dead.