Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost Atlantis. The drought that afflicted the big city was plaguing a widespread area of the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada. Anglers on New Brunswick's Kedgwick and Restigouche rivers went home salmonless because the rivers were so low that the fish could not make it upstream to spawn. At the Quabbin Reservoir, near Springfield, Mass., the water level dropped so far that a long-submerged race track came into view like a relic of some lost Atlantis. In Maine the 30 million-lb. blueberry crop was nearing its critical growth period in need of moisture...
...given no sign of abating: a predominantly dry air mass that is stuck over the north eastern U.S. Under normal conditions, the prevailing winds that sweep from west to east across the U.S. at altitudes ranging from one to five miles fluctuate between downhill (northwest-southeast) and uphill (southwest-northeast) courses, which produce alternating dry and wet weather. On the uphill course the air rises, eventually cools off enough to produce condensation, clouds and rain. Just the opposite happens on the downhill cycle: air flowing from northwest to southeast moves lower as it reaches the east coast, becomes warmer, drier...
...still managed to get to the bedside of a sick child of a staff member-and to show up at the right doorstep in town when the school needed help from the community. Promoting higher taxes, she got local authorities to buy 227 acres for a campus eight miles northeast of Charlotte and build a plant worth $3,000,000. With skillful lobbying from Charlotte, the 1963 general assembly was persuaded to put Miss Bonnie's school-now Charlotte College-into the state's four-year system...
...Near Chu Lai, 320 miles northeast of Saigon, four U.S. Marines were killed and four others wounded in a clash with the Viet Cong...
...island of Mount Desert (pronounced dessert), Me., the accent has always been on sports as well as society. The grandeur has been somewhat subdued since Bar Harbor's big old mansions burned to the ground in the 1947 fire and were replaced by motels. But Northeast, Seal, and Southwest Harbor still are cluttered with the kind of people who do not mind how much money they spend as long as it does not show. Swimming is possible, but the water is so bone-chilling that only the hardy or the invulnerable young do much of it except in swimming pools...