Word: northeast
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...swings in the historical standings, perhaps the greatest for any President. He had savage critics while he was in office; "Mad Tom" was one of their epithets for him. (Washington was called "a tyrant" and Lincoln "a baboon." Lyndon Johnson, touchingly, took comfort in those contemporary misjudgments.) The conservative Northeast historians of the 19th century held essentially to the Hamiltonian belief in a strong central government and saw Jefferson as the exponent of weak government and of an excessive trust in the people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people all right, but thought...
...away as the countryside of feudal Japan, the history of ethnic America unfolds not only on the American landscape, but on all the continents of the world. Scotch-Irish pioneers settled the mountainous regions of Appalachia, while freed Black slaves migrated to the cities of the Northeast. Turn-of-the-century immigrants turned New York into the largest Jewish metropolis that culture has ever known; Japanese farmers transformed the valleys of California into the most prolific fruit-producing areas of the world...
Those who know nothing about Ultimate Frisbee except that it is inherently California know even less than they think they do. Ultimate Frisbee's birthplace is Colonial High School in New Jersey, and its current hot-bed is the Northeast...
Long Shot #2: Overhead--Directly over the Brattle Theater, at an altitude of some 15,000 feet, is an American Airlines L-1011 banking Northeast toward the Atlantic. From below there is nothing but silent, blinking red lights. The passengers are also seated in rows, banked at an angle of close to 25 degrees to port, travelling at a velocity close to 400 miles per hour...
...future's terrific. We have the largest program of any debate team, as far as I know, in the Northeast," Rozinski said. "It should become a substantial part of the extracurricular scene at Harvard," he added. The first Harvard extemporaneous debate tournament is scheduled for October...