Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave Steeves was due at his home base in Selma, Ala. in about four hours...
...adventure. As the private talks ranged from the Middle East to Russia to defense, one newsmaking proposal came from Canada's Diefenbaker. Having campaigned on a pledge to seek new markets for exports within the Commonwealth, he invited Commonwealth Finance Ministers to meet in Ottawa in September to map an agenda for a full-scale trade conference...
...Skelton, Iraq's Strongman Premier Nuri asSaid believes in the custom of summer replacements. Last week, as Baghdad's asphalt sidewalks turned sticky-soft in the sweltering desert heat, Nuri turned over Iraq's government to Senator Ali Jawdat, then went back to poring over a map on which was circled in ink the fashionable south German spa, Bühlerhohe, near Baden-Baden. First, Nuri confided, he was going to London for a medical checkup, then off to the Black Forest. Later he was returning to London briefly to look after two grandsons who are entering...
Those vivid pictures and your map of Middle Africa "bring homesickness" (vi koka ongeva) to one just back from Africa. Your writer, however, brushes off Christianity as "Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few." A conservative estimate gives at least 8,000,000 Protestants and 13,000,000 Roman Catholics in Middle Africa, and the Christian community has been doubling itself about every 15 years...
...Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet, and win the war quickly before U.S. industrial might could be brought to bear. "In the last analysis," he argued, "the success or failure of our entire strategy in the Pacific will...