Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least one Canadian was sure that the warm spell would continue for a while. Out on the Piapot Indian Reserve, northeast of Regina in Saskatchewan, Chief Abel Watetch could see things invisible to most observers. Muskrat houses this year are not tall, he said, but their walls are thick. Rosebushes have lots of buds, growing close to the ground. Jackrabbits so far have only tiny patches of white on the tips of their ears and on their forelegs. The chief's solemn prediction: six more weeks of mild weather, then a moderately mild winter with not much snow...
...boyish-looking, 33-year-old ex-U.S. Navy pilot named Charles Martin-decided what to do. While he still had gasoline for almost three hours' flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as a weather ship about 900 miles northeast of Newfoundland. He found her, with fuel to spare. But as the plane settled lower, the tense and silent passengers saw a fearsome sight. The gale-driven waves were rolling 35 feet high and 100 feet from crest to foaming crest...
...Threatened. Another witness had talked to rich Hindus who last week had begun fleeing into Calcutta from Eastern Pakistan. These Hindus, he said, reported increased activity of the Moslem League National Guard organizations. If terrorism breaks out in northeast India, where 13,000,000 Hindus live, the carnage might be unimaginably greater than in the Punjab...
Chen continued: "The job of eliminating squeeze must begin here in the very center of the northeast. Those who have illegally seized houses and lands from civilians must restore them immediately to their rightful owners. This is an order. We will cure or kill. Or we'll send those who disobey home without houses and lands. . . . Some of you sitting here, whose names I'll not mention, have been talking smartly, but let me warn you that accusations have been made." The 100 guests no longer smiled...
Hariold E. Stassen left New England tonight after a four day visit, declaring that talks with G. O. P. leaders in the northeast states had encouraged him in his campaign for the Republican nomination for President...