Word: athwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostile Malaysia aligned with a powerful Indonesia would halt the flow of East-West shipping through one of the world's busiest waterways-the vital Strait of Malacca (see map). And since Indonesia lies athwart other passages north of the 10th Parallel, a sea voyage from Hong Kong to Rangoon would require a detour of some 7,000 miles. Should Viet Nam also fall, west bound jetliners that now fly to India via Thailand would have to be rerouted via Australia-double the distance...
...make a kind of United States of Europe." In 1947, the Marshall Plan began to give it bone and sinew. In 1950, with the Schuman Plan to pool the Continent's coal-and-steel resources, it began to stir. It envisioned nothing less than a prosperous united Europe athwart one Atlantic littoral, allied with the U.S. on the other side-two giants whose joint democratic and humane stand for freedom everywhere would be more than a match for Communism...
...wrote Mark Twain about Lake Tahoe, a 22-mile-long scenic jewel 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, and so the lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...
...main entrance of the campus, with about 20 state highway patrolmen backing him up. About 100 ft. behind, a dozen sheriffs from various Mississippi counties stood in a single rank across the roadway. Behind them, forming a third line of defense, three police cars were parked end to end athwart the road...
Monster Octagon. What this means for New York may be examined in terms of that still-unfinished midtown giant, the Pan American Building, an elongated octagon that stands athwart Park Avenue between the Grand Central Terminal and the once proud Grand Central Building, now diminished to a small shadow against the looming white concrete slab...