Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neutron Country. All winter, Dr. John Simpson of the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies flew back & forth between the northern U.S. and Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...
Billy didn't git; like any boy, he was thrilled at the prospect of seeing a real battle. When the Army of Northern Virginia hove in sight, "wave after wave, billow after billow," Billy was squatting on top of a fence...
...Fault." After Pickett's charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly...
Room for Lots More. In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens. Said he: "Here I was with 600 acres of the best land in northern Virginia. I just decided to get ahead of Congress in this building-a-new-world business...
Still other Arab contingents were on the move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question...