Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...isolated tornado or two is expected to occur from 4 to 7 o'clock p.m. in an area 60 miles north and south of Salina, Kans., running northeast to a line 40 miles north and 30 miles south of Kirksville...
...With the northeast securely in Communist hands, two Pathet Lao columns moved on the royal capital of Luang-prabang. routed government forces at Phou Khoun and drove to within 15 miles of the city. In central Laos the town of Kamkeut, which lies astride the strategic road running to Viet Nam, fell to the advancing Reds. Vientiane itself was closely ringed by six Pathet Lao companies which ambushed convoys and sent patrols ranging as far as a U.S. compound barely three miles from the center of the city...
...narrow cockpit, with one leg braced against a wing strut. After two hours of buffeting, Félix, who had never flown in bad weather before, ditched the tiny plane a few hundred yards off Damas Cays, a string of small barren islets about 100 miles northeast of Santa Clara. Swimming for shore, Félix stopped to catch his breath, telling Rafael to push ahead. That was the last time Rafael saw his friend alive...
...final tally was 217 for, 212 against: 64 Democrats, all from the South and border states, voted against Rayburn, but 22 Republicans, mostly from the urban Northeast, crossed over the party line to save him from a humiliating defeat. When Rayburn announced the totals. Howard Smith stood up and shuffled off the floor and into the cloakroom. "Well," he said with a wan smile, "we done our damnedest." Rayburn's smile was far from wan. "We won." he said, his eyes dancing, "and I am satisfied...
...wonderful winter-for penguins. Texas shivered in the blast of a rare "blue norther," Florida's pole bean and tourist crops were imperiled by frost, the temperature plunged to 22º below in Laramie, Wyo., and the entire northeast was smothered under snow that seemed to fall endlessly, making the average commuter feel his kinship to Nanook of the North...