Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eastern plains, one polling place stayed open the statutory nine hours to allow the three registered voters in the area (100 sq. mi.) to cast their ballots. On the palm-fringed shores of the Indian Ocean to the south, British district officers took to dugout canoes to ferry the black metal ballot boxes up crocodile-infested rivers to obscure villages where natives would choose from such party symbols as a clock, a cockerel, a lion...
...town of Besangon in eastern France, some of the world's best-known batons were wagging last week. Besangon's annual International Music Festival had invited conducting stars such as Pierre Monteux and Andre Cluytens. But the attention of most festival goers was focused on a tanned, tense young newcomer: 28-year-old American Conductor Lorin Maazel...
...football machine rolled up a total of 222 points, as against 13 for its opponents. Its record marred only by a 10-10 tie with Princeton, the Crimson accepted a bid to Pasadena; and on January 1, 1920, Harvard ushered in a new decade by becoming the first Eastern team to win the Rose Bowl...
...host of icons sent abroad for the first time from great collections in Turkey, Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. The total effect is a reminder that for more than a thousand years, from the sack of Rome in A.D. 410 to the Moslem capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Eastern branch of Christendom was the creator and guardian of classic...
...707s to National every winter, when National's Miami business picks up. National would lease DC-8s to Pan Am in summer for busy North Atlantic route. Deal would allow National to make three jet round trips daily to Miami during coming Florida season, race ahead of competing Eastern and Northeast with first pure jets on route...