Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Korean peninsula has always been a key to the stability of Northeast Asia. It is of vital concern to the Japanese, with over $1.5 billion worth of investments on the peninsula and the enduring feeling that Korea is "a dagger pointing at the heart of Japan." U.S. strategists, looking toward the post-Viet Nam era, are already talking about a Northeast Asia defense line, anchored in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. In all three countries, the U.S. has strong economic interests backed by formal mutual defense treaties...
...least he would have been spared the sailboats. When Production Designer Alves first saw and admired the Vineyard's uninterrupted horizon line, it was winter. By the time Spielberg took to the water, it was July 1; the Vineyard is one of the most popular ports in the Northeast. Small craft sailed within feet of the camera, sometimes interrupting shots...
Well not quite everyone, as Warren Shanklin from Northeast Louisiana, soared to a career best by leaping 7 ft. 1 in for the title...
...push from Washington. In the days leading up to his announcement, Communist troops had made a mockery of any claim that Saigon could yet mobilize a vigorous defense. The badly battered ARVN 18th Division put up a heroic stand at the provincial capital of Xuan Loc, 40 miles northeast of Saigon, but a formidable force of three North Vietnamese divisions, after taking some severe casualties from government air strikes, simply wore them down. When the exhausted remnants of Xuan Loc's defenders straggled into Saigon early last week, it was plain that the military initiative lay entirely with the Communists...
...probably raining... Boston's a lot different from El Paso. The architecture is different, the way people talk is different, the whole pace of life is different. But there are a lot of things that unite El Paso and Boston; Texas and Massachusetts and the Southwest and the Northeast. We're both part of one nation, a nation that's in trouble...