Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post was an eight-man weather station on Fletcher's Island, a great mass of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. It was discovered more than two years ago by the Alaskan Air Command, and colonized last March with assorted weathermen, scientists and communication experts. Then, moving eastward at 2½ miles a day, it floated into the jurisdiction of the Northeast Air Command...
...friends were given the identity cards of three Frenchmen who had died in the camp hospital. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to another camp, Gleina, as Maurice Chouquet. There he worked in the hospital, and watched his chance to escape. It came only when the whole camp was moved eastward, into Czechoslovakia, for extermination. On the way he bribed another Gestapo officer and, during a halt to bury some dead prisoners, led a mass flight across the fields to a nearby wood...
...rise such steel-and-glass skyscrapers as the 14-story University of San Andres. Shaggy llamas shuffle indolently to the side of the capital's steep, cobbled streets to make way for Fords and Cadillacs. Government officials, demanding emancipation from the tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles and Chaco plains. With the aid of a $26 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, Bolivia hopes to finish a highway linking the mountain cities with Santa Cruz, capital of the plains...
Davis was the first man ever to sail eastward across the South Pacific during the winter. He made the voyage in a 48-foot ketch with a crew of two, his wife, and two sons. On November 2nd, after five months of sailing, his boat arrived in Cambridge...
...grazed contentedly last week. Fine-boned and broad-skulled, with mouse-grey coats and zebra-striped legs, they look for all the world like tarpans, the fierce wild horses that Roman legionnaires found in Spain. But tarpans are extinct: the last herds vanished in the 19th century, after ranging eastward to the steppes of the Ukraine...