Word: northeasterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore with the Marines at Wonsan, the 7th Division had landed at Iwon to save itself an overland trip north. At the time of the landing, Major General Edward Almond, U.N. commander in northeastern Korea, had tersely described the objective of his columns as "the border." By week's end it looked as though their drive to the border might be delayed...
Among the less important positions, there are a number of Harvard men running for the House of Representatives and for state posts. This is especially true in Massachusetts and the rest of the northeastern area...
January 1-2 at North Dakota ; 9, at Brown; 13, at Williams; 16, Northeastern...
February 5, B.C.; 6 Northeastern; 10, at Dartmouth; 13 B.U.; 17, at Army; 20, Dartmouth; 22, at New York A.C.; 24, at Princeton; 27, Brown...
Last week U.S. bird watchers had an eye peeled for the peregrine falcons which were migrating from the northeastern U.S. and Canada to the Gulf states and the Caribbean. But not all were migrating this month. The New York World-Telegram and Sun noted that a very few will winter-as-usual, of all places, high on craggy skyscrapers in Manhattan. There they have found ledges as bare and precipitous as any mountain falcon eyrie. And they have a year-round food supply in the thousands of fat and sassy Manhattan pigeons who linger below...