Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long northern summer days almost wiped out the night. The meadows were fairytale green, and the air was clear as aquavit. But the idyllic season was broken by two alarming intrusions...
Last week the Marvita chugged into tiny Hebron, most northern of bleak Labrador's mission-trading posts. Parka-clad voters padded aboard to mark ballots, picking one of the five candidates-a fisherman, a clergyman, an ex-Ranger, two wireless operators-as Labrador's lone representative at next month's national convention in St. John...
...Only in backward countries such as Paraguay and Bolivia, where illiteracy and disease abound, does one find true dictatorships today," he asserted in contradicting the popular notions prevalent among northern peoples...
...northern Zululand's subtropical bush, an army of hunters stood poised for the greatest game hunt in South African history. This week, at a signal from Scientist Gilles De Kock, they would raise their guns and assagais (spears), and plunge into the jungle. Quarry: the tsetse...
...Hayden Planetarium summed up, in Sky and Telescope the latest "astronomical facts concerning the end of the world": About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away. Its roar was heard more than 400 miles...