Word: northern
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Elsewhere, throughout Eastern Europe, the people Low met were usually helpful and friendly -if they were sure the police weren't looking -and Low is convinced that American prestige is still high there. It was much the same in the purple mountains of Northern Iran on the Soviet frontier, where Low spent some time last summer with a Kurdish chieftain of the Shikakki tribe, listening to a portable radio churning Russian-sponsored incitements to revolt while the chief conveyed his high regard for Americans and obviously meant...
Fearful Wayne Morse had plenty of company in Big Labor. The A.F.L.'s Political League called the Republicans "Northern Dixiecrats." A C.I.O. propagandist coined an angry name for the coalition: "Dixiegop," a nightmare animal with "the front legs and face of a donkey [and] the trunk and rear end of an elephant," which would haunt organized labor's dreams...
North Carolina will be a hard college to beat, but the squad hopes to do well against the other three. Whatever happens, it will have the jump on northern schools when it comes back to Boston. The Varsity will have plenty of practice behind it when it meets Clark April 13 and Dartmouth April...
Chasing Fleas. Opposing factions had moved up to the showdown with the customary elephantine senatorial ceremony. Moodily watched by their Northern colleagues, the Southerners had continued to plod through their filibuster. Any good Southern orator, standing on his head, could have done all the talking that was required...
...Compton Cup races the following week, when Princeton and Rutgers also try their luck. Bolles considers both New Jersey schools "southern crews," and this year, at least, he's perfectly justified. The balmy winter permitted both to row outside all season, which gives them a tremendous jump on their northern foes...