Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crash Course. Ed Brooke grew up in a pleasant northeast-Washington section called, coincidentally, Brookland, which was populated by black bourgeoisie. The family belonged to St. Luke's Episcopal Church, a favored house of worship for well-to-do Negroes ?where, it was said, one minister died of sorrow because his congregation complained that his new bride was too black to sit in the pews...
Steady Surveillance. Viet Cong guerrillas fired on two separate units of American paratroopers patrolling northeast of Saigon, then poured bullets into the MEDEVAC helicopter that swooped in to pick up the wounded-but failed to bring it down. Individual Red riflemen took potshots at passing choppers and reconnaissance planes throughout South Viet Nam, or chucked hand grenades at Allied positions...
...Boston commuter," promised American Airlines' full-page ads. American, hoping for some relief itself, was touting its fancy new Boston-New York Jet Express service, which begins this week. Once king of the route, the airline is challenging the upstart that has virtually swept the rich Northeast Corridor since 1961: Eastern Air Lines' pinchpenny but popular Air-Shuttle...
...showing made Harvard a strong contender against Middlebury for the second place Alpine spot in the Northeast...
Full Fathom Five. On July 31, 1715, while the fleet's nine merchant galleons and two men-of-war sailed northeast in a stately procession along the Gulf Stream from Havana, an early hurricane bashed them with 100-m.p.h. winds against Florida's offshore reefs, between 30 and 50 miles south of what is now Cape Kennedy. Only one galleon survived. Captain Ubilla and more than 1,000 of his men drowned. The battered remains of the ships' hulls sank in 30 feet of murky water. Spanish recovery crews, pirates and poachers, hampered by deceitful currents, sharks...