Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bases in northeast Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska, from which they could bomb any city...
Ailing General Chen Cheng was savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin man recited a bitter song sung by "abused, ill-equipped local forces." The song...
Lightning's wild blue incandescence lit western Texas, northeastern Kansas and the panhandle of Oklahoma. The storm moved northeast. Before dawn of the day before spring, tornadoes began whirling out of it, like bursts of flame from a moving forest fire...
...voyages of Columbus had a very different effect. Men discovered, to their great annoyance, that Columbus' "spice island" was a vast continent which shut them off from the rich Indies; and they tried again & again to by-pass America and Russia by finding some northwest or northeast passage. Warned that he would perish in the Arctic, Elizabethan Robert Thorne replied brusquely: "There is no land unhabitable, nor sea innavigable." So sure were these hardy Elizabethans of reaching their goal that they sheathed their cockleshell ships with lead, to protect the timbers from the worms of India...
Beards & Steeples. Richard Chancellor, one of the most daring of these merchant adventurers, pressed northeast until he reached a world where there was "no night at all, but a continual light upon the huge and mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches...