Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They rolled through Atlanta, on through Athens, and into the lonely hills of northeast Georgia. They were about 23 miles outside Athens when a car pulled alongside. A white man poked a sawed-off shotgun toward the Negroes' car, leveled the end of its barrel only three feet from Driver Penn's head. He pulled the trigger. Penn died instantly...
...seemed that nothing short of major military aid from the outside could stop the rebels and preserve the month-old "government of public salvation" led by Premier Moise Tshombe. Though the Congolese army, in a rare show of aggressiveness, had recaptured the river port of Bolobo some 200 miles northeast of Leopoldville and three other towns, rebel forces threatened Kivu Central province's highland capital of Bukavu. The rampaging insurgent forces reportedly captured the tin-mining town of Manono as well...
...woolly slug is concentrated in eleven states from Maryland to Missouri and Texas, but it has close kin in the Northeast: the caterpillar of the white moth, Lagoa crispata. Other common stingers are the range and saddleback caterpillars, and those of the buck, lo, tussock and brown-tail moths. Where the caterpillars are especially abundant, their hairs may fly through the air in such numbers as to bring on asthma attacks in children who never even touch the beast directly...
Goldwater's nomination was much more than the victory of "a minority within a minority." It signaled a basic shift in the Republican Party from its power base in the Northeast and Great Lakes states to a Southern-and Western-oriented geographical foundation that spreads from the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast...
...incorporate Negro churches and pastors, and assigned Bishop James S. Thomas, 45, to head the Iowa area. A native of South Carolina, Bishop Thomas will have headquarters in Des Moines, govern 300,000 Methodists, all but 500 of them white. A few days earlier, in the Northeast, white Methodists also accepted Negro churches into their jurisdiction and appointed Bishop Prince Taylor Jr. of Baltimore to head a newly created New Jersey district. He will govern more than 600 churches with 200,000 members, only about 5% of them Negro. Next year he will succeed New York's Bishop Lloyd...