Word: hilo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITY WITH HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF NONWHITES: Hilo, Hawaii, with 79.5%. In the continental U.S., Bessemer, Ala., leads with...
...LEAST DENSELY POPULATED CITY: Hilo, Hawaii, with 89 per sq. mi. Next: Oak Ridge. Tenn., with...
...always, his staff had primed Nixon with bits of local knowledge to toss off at opportune moments. Landing on the island of Kauai in a rain squall, he smilingly observed that Kauai legend holds rain to be a good omen. At Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, he mentioned not only the tidal wave that devastated Hilo last May but also the big wave that hit the city back in 1946. On Maui, he tried his tongue on some flattering words in Hawaiian: "Maui no ka oi"-roughly, "Maui is the best of all the islands...
...newsroom (to the Advertiser's 39), has a larger correspondent network, with staffers in all the outer Hawaiian islands and stringers in Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands and the U.S. Some 12,500 outer islanders also get the Star-Bulletin daily, by air; another 9,904 Hawaiians in Hilo, on Hawaii Island, take the Tribune-Herald, which is owned by the Star-Bulletin...
...long east coast of Japan, 10,000 miles from Chile, went under. Warned by a sudden onrush of the sea, the fishermen of the coastal town of Kiritappu raced for high ground, then turned to watch the waves fling their boats into the streets behind them. The waterfront of Hilo, Hawaii was erased by 35 ft. waves...