Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene I: Somewhere off the Atlantic Coast the Potomac is hove to in a light swell. A big grey war vessel comes over the horizon. Franklin Roosevelt is taken to it. The warship sets its course to the northeast...
Oscar Stauffer, 21 years younger than Arthur Capper, is a tolerant critic of Roosevelt's foreign policy. But Arthur Capper blankets northeast and central Kansas with isolationist sentiments equaled in venom only by the Chicago Tribune...
...Embassy in Moscow last week was open for business-but there was no business. Each night Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and his aides drove 20 miles northeast of threatened Moscow to the emergency quarters appropriately named "The Refuge," on a high bluff overlooking the roaring Klyasma River. There, on an estate surrounded by a high picket fence, in a comfortable, plain, seven-room house, the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular representatives prepared to guard the interests of the U.S. in one-sixth of the earth's surface. They found themselves almost as isolated as the pioneers of the old West...
...Palmyra, Aleppo. The two columns coming from the northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
...weather bureau is not at all hopeful about the conditions for late this afternoon, forecasting a northeast breeze of around 20 miles an hour. Similar conditions last Saturday caused the postponement of the scheduled Rowe Cup Regatta until Monday...