Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more miraculous than the one accomplished by West Germany. The end of World War II left the West with the mines and factories of the Ruhr, an industrial base that had been only partly destroyed by British and American bombs. The East got the fields and forests of northeast Prussia and Saxony. Instead of standing for the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, the East Germans joked, the initials D.D.R. stood for Der Doofe Rest-"the stupid leftovers...
Last week more than 5,000 insurgents laid siege to a comparable force of government soldiers defending Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city (peacetime pop. 125,000, now about 65,000), approximately 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh. Lon Nol vowed that he would not let Kompong Cham fall and dispatched Major General Sar Hor, the highly regarded Minister of Veteran Affairs, to take charge of its defenses. Nonetheless, the insurgents steadily advanced. Using American 105-mm. howitzers captured last month from fleeing government troops, they massively shelled the city, rendering Kompong Cham's airport useless. Government...
...houses are in the comfortable tree-lined sections of the Cambridge residential area northeast of the Yard around Francis Ave. and west of the Yard near Mt. Auburn...
...area's Japanese population, is divided into three parts roughly according to the kind of food served in each. The most exotic, and least crowded, section is the raw fish, or sushi, bar. Osaka's sushi is as good as any you are likely to find in the Northeast...
Some pleasant Saturday afternoon before the first snow falls, put on a pair of comfortable shoes and take a walking tour of Harvard's faculty houses. Most of the homes are located in an area to the northeast of the Yard, bounded by Kirkland St. on the south, Francis Ave. on the west, and Irving St. on the east...