Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rising sand-clouds from the West blew relentlessly across the stone-edge plain. Formations of loess dropped in dismaying array on huddled figures before shivering animals. Superstitious yellow-men wrapped themselves deeper into fur-lined garments and earth-colored birds took safety in fight toward the East. Sky and land fused together in one great maelstrom of motion. Here was storm over Asia...
...anchor in the scummy waters of Manhattan's East River, off 130th Street, lolled the 50-ft. white yacht Josephine with a red work flag flying at her masthead. For weeks & weeks Josephine had gone undisturbed about her business until one day last month the big seagoing tug Terminal bustled up, dropped anchor, went to work. From the Josephine came indignant cries of "poacher!" The men of Terminal retorted that nobody owned the river. A Coast Guard cutter appeared, ordered the tug to keep clear of the cables on the bottom. By last week the magic word GOLD...
History: On Nov. 23, 1780, the 28-gun British frigate Hussar, Captain Charles M. Pole commanding, sank in the East River near treacherous Hell Gate...
...preliminary report from the Harvard Observatory on the meteor which flashed across eastern New England skies early Wednesday afternoon, September 26. indicates that the fireball exploded over the Atlantic Ocean about 180 miles due east from Boston...
...sequel to his famed "British Agent," is not quite as good as that original opus for the simple reason that the material is not as good. In this tale of travel and experience after the war, Lockhart takes us on his semi-official banking and diplomatic mission to East-central Europe...