Word: easternmost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start of another round of border bloodletting between China and the Soviet Union? It seemed ominous-for a while. As Peking told it, one day last week a Soviet helicopter flew across the Ussuri River frontier and 2½ miles into Heilungkiang, China's easternmost province, while boats landed 30 Soviet troops on Chinese soil. There, Peking charged, the Russians "tried to round up Chinese inhabitants, shooting continually and wounding a number of them." Some captives were dragged back to the river and given "kicks and blows" before they were finally...
Standing at Eastport's tip, you are the first American to see the sun rise on October 8, 1977. This is the country's easternmost point, tucked away where the suns and moons are never shrouded by the city's dust...
Rattiner broke into creative journalism at age 20 after his father fired him from a summer job at the family drugstore in Long Island's easternmost village, Montauk. His offense: serving seven-scoop sundaes. He quickly raised $3,100 from local merchants and launched the Montauk Pioneer, his first free-distribution summer weekly. Today Rattiner owns a local printing firm, an advertising agency, a messenger and delivery service, as well as the eight weeklies-all of which he runs from his three-story gray-shingled "Dan's Papers Publishing Tower" on Main Street, Bridgehampton...
...majority of Cambridge's Portuguese arrive from the Azores, particularly the two easternmost islands, Sao Miguel and Santa Maria. By American standards, the Azorean economy is industrially backward and economically depressed with most of the inhabitants engaged in maritime and agricultural work...
...during the August 1973 Congressional recess, Cohen is back on the road again, this time walking through Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook counties in northeastern Maine. He reaches Lubec, the easternmost town in the United States, by the end of the first week, and finds the inhabitants somewhat pessimistic about their future...