Word: coastward
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...five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward, it blows westward, from Utah to the sea. The winds superheat in the Mojave Desert. Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan Didion has called "the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread . . ." If the state is unlucky, a spark, man-made...
...will take back all the lands which were once Greek. These lands include Istanbul and Asia Minor. Although Greek military strength, particularly her naval strength, is far inferior to Turkish military might, it is not inconceivable that the junta will build up Greek forces with a view to moving coastward. Greece tried to take "the city" after World War I with disastrous results. Nothing is impossible in the Balkans...
...government said yes, Communist troops would enter China's southland both east and west of Nanking, would then wheel coastward to cut off Shanghai. If the government said no, Communist troops were primed to cross the river by assault. In the vital lower Yangtze, they were 400,000 against the Nationalists...
...Zehrung and "Rebel Bill" Wiman (Manfred E. to any Yankees under his "compance tenshun" were seen heading coastward with a million other people seeking a cool and secluded beach. They soon learned as have we all that here in New England a beach doesn't have to have send to be so named...
Last Tuesday, Mr. Gale, an Australian, discovered a disturbance which be declared to be a comet of the tenth magnitude, in Scorpio, near Mars, and moving coastward, though not fast enough to have gotten out of telescopic range...
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