Word: easternmost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago lost any real enthusiasm for the remote and unrewarding territory. But Indonesia's sense of Manifest Destiny was involved. For decades, Indonesians have always rallied to the cry "From Sabang to Merauke!" -from the westernmost island of the 3,000-island archipelago to the easternmost hamlet in West Irian. Said Frans Kaisieppo, the governor of West Irian: "It has become a religious conviction...
...battle for much of the year-so swampy that it could easily swallow up an army." The Chinese side of the Ussuri is heavily forested; timbered hills sweep down to the river swamps for most of its length. Through the forests on the Soviet side runs the easternmost segment of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which links the key Pacific port of Vladivostok with Khabarovsk, more than 400 miles to the north. Beside the railway runs what the Japanese occupiers used to call "the Stalin Highway," a road built in 1938 in imitation of Hitler's Autobahnen...
...Easy way to win a bet: ask which are the southernmost, northernmost, westernmost and easternmost states. Answers: Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska-and Alaska, which is easternmost because it crosses the 180th meridian...
...least one respect: there is no hint of any interest in Communism among the Bajans, who are 98% literate and exhibit an easygoing gentility. Race relations are good, although the whites, who make up only 8% of the population, control most of the island's wealth. Easternmost of the West Indies, Barbados is kept at a comfortable 70° to 85° year round by the trade winds, has fine beaches-with Atlantic surf on one side and the calm, clear Caribbean on the other. The island's great hope is that these attractions will bring enough tourists...