Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northeast has made the New South a present of our federal funds, brains, brawn and jobs. Without the deprivation of the Northeast, the New South would never have risen...
William Blake once divided up the districts of England in the form of a giant man. The same could be done for America: the Northeast is the nervous system, the Midwest the muscles, the South the spirit and the emotions, and the West-well, the gonads...
...NORTHEAST. In New York and Pennsylvania, organizational kinks have been ironed out; in New Jersey, where they lingered longer, Democrats at last appear to be uniting. Carter will probably benefit from the court ruling that ended a recall move against Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. Freed of his major concern, Rizzo can now rev up his city machine on behalf of Carter-Mondale. But in the big industrial states, the problem appears to be boredom with both campaigns and both candidates. In such states, the larger the turnout, the better for the Democrats...
...heaviest tank and artillery action of Lebanon's long-playing 18-month civil war reverberated last week through the steep mountain ranges northeast of Beirut. And as has more and more been the case in the country's so far insoluble struggle, the principal combatants were not even Lebanese. The battle was mainly between Palestinian commandos holding some towns near Lebanon's 8,500-ft. Sannin Mountain and Syrian forces determined to dislodge them, with Lebanese forces fighting in secondary roles. The Syrians, after a 36-hour artillery barrage, were successful; altogether, however, another 1,500 people...
...Sept. 21, 1938, seven years before the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a hurricane descended with almost as little warning upon the northeast coastline of the U.S. Until then the land-lubbing public had known of "gales," "tempests," "blows," even "a bit of weather." But "hurricane" was a new and terrible escalation of apocalyptic power in the popular consciousness...