Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Closer to the coast, northeast of An Khe, thousands of troops from the 1st Cavalry joined Vietnamese army and marine units in a far more important drive called Operation Shiny Bayonet. Three waves of B-52 bombers and a blistering artillery bombardment plastered the landing zones before the Americans swept in by helicopter in what might become the largest operation of the war so far. Eight troop-carrying choppers were hit by ground fire, but resistance was light as the operation began; by nightfall of the first day, the 1st Cavalrymen were hot on the heels...
Problems were solved for the Federal government in Guanabara, where the city of Rio de Janeiro is situated, and in the state of Minas Gerais, a powerful and rapidly developing area just northeast of Guanabara...
...team of Federal officials visited Cambridge last month to inspect the site the new building--the northeast corner of the Yard where Hunt Hall, of the four buildings currently used by the Design School, is located...
...rich by most Red Chinese, whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia can claim to have abolished the crasser forms of poverty-but only by imposing on the whole nation a way of life that most Americans today would equate with privation...
...small consolation to the water-short U.S. Northeast, but game ducks have long been more parched than people. For five years the great prairies of the central U.S. and Canada have had subnormal rainfall-not bad enough to bother humans but plenty bad for ducks. Thousands of breeding marshes and potholes turned to mud, then dust. That meant that for every 100 ducks that flew north to breed in the spring, only 80 came back through U.S. flyways in the fall. Hatchings were a little better this year but still far below normal times when 170 ducks return south...