Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born farm-labor contractor named Juan Corona, 37, married and the father of four daughters, but they were by no means sure that they had come to the end of the trail of bodies. They evidently discovered some of the corpses by checking out X marks on a crude map found in Corona's Bible. "I don't know where it's going to stop," said Sutter County Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. "We'll keep digging until we quit finding bodies." That could take some time. In Tehama County, 70 miles to the north, Sheriff Lyle Williams...
...door open but no one inside. I was tired and sat down to read a book I had with me. About half an hour later, a man in a coat and tie arrived smiled at me politely and said hello. I responded likewise and asked if he had a map of the city. He responded, "No speak English, sorry." I repeated the question in French, which he understood. He seemed surprised at my question and answered, in French, that I could find such things as maps of the city at the American Embassy...
...next need, after a map of Vientiane, was a place to stay. There are four hotels in Vientiane, all costing five dollars a night and over-a lot for that part of the world, and too much for travellers like me who try to spend next to nothing...
Since 1790, when the nation's population concentrated statistically at a spot near Baltimore, the American center of gravity has tipped ever westward. Census results show it moving across the map like flowing lava: in 1870 east of Cincinnati, in 1900 near Indianapolis, in 1940 on the Indiana-Illinois line. Today, the computers calculate, the population center lies at lat. 38° 27 min. 47 sec. N., and long. 89° 42 min. 22 sec. W. That puts it in the middle of one of Farmer Lawrence Friederich's fields outside of Mascoutah, Ill., just southeast...
...great extent, Egypt's Sadat has made diplomatic profit out of an Israeli attitude that appears unreasonable. The Israelis seem to believe that they can have both peace and substantial changes in the pre-1967 map. Yet this may well prove a delusion. White House National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger once noted that absolute security for one power means absolute insecurity for its neighbors. Thus even if Israel were to get the geographically secure boundaries on which it insists, it might merely succeed in increasing instability...