Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism, a fund, of public respect which could now be spent in U.S.S.R. baiting, in the company of other savory persons who spend their time at it? During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during the '40s, while the battles of Sevastopol and Stalingrad were being fought, while the U.S.S.R...
...Northern Lights. Byrnes proposed that UNO ask both Russia and Iran to report officially on the status of their negotiations, wanted answers by April 2. Other delegates suggested April 4 because "magnetic storms" were delaying communications. Chairman Quo Tai-chi compromised on April 3. While UNO waited for the Russian and Iranian reports, Pravda called the whole crisis "artificial," and pronounced further discussion of the case "superfluous" in the light of "the mutual understanding reached regarding evacuation of Soviet forces from Iran...
...then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...
...chances for wealth in the cold, barren, undeveloped north were good. But even so, only 2% of Manitoba's population (under 750,000) last year lived in the northern two-thirds of the province...
...formed when a block of the earth's crust dropped several thousand feet. The lowest part, at the south, is filled by the Dead Sea, whose surface is 1,290 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. The plentiful run-off from the Lebanon Mountains flows into the northern end of the rift near Lake Tiberias (the Biblical Sea of Galilee), then south through the Jordan River, and is finally lost in the Dead Sea's heavy brine...