Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely Footabrough inlet brilliant red and purple sea urchins bobbed in the swell along the shore. Out beyond the three-mile limit rode the Ukraina and two other trawlers of a Soviet fishing fleet...
...Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard-hit northern tier states. Rain fell so hard in Bombay that five people drowned in a single day in the flooded streets...
...Aussies, Bas Wie soon found, were all that he had remembered them to be. The Northern Territory Administrator himself gave him a home and sent him to school. In return, Bas Wie worked about the official residence, each Christmas presented the Administrator with an intricately carved ship model he had made himself. When the Administrator was transferred, a Darwin couple adopted Bas Wie, and he got a job as a clerk at the Commonwealth Works Department. There, a year and a half ago, 24-year-old Bas Wie met a pretty young white girl from Perth. After a year-long...
That night, as the Navy began a search for the missing bus, another sailor was grabbed just outside the base. At the same time, across the island at the northern edge of the Sierra del Cristal, U.S. Consul Park Wollam set off into the hills with a pair of Cuban guides. His mission: negotiating the release of ten U.S. and two Canadian executives and engineers kidnaped by Raúl Castro's men two days earlier from the village of Moa, site of a $75 million nickel-processing plant under construction for Freeport Sulphur Co. (TIME...
Louis Philippe, "the Citizen King," sent his agent, Baron Taylor, to investigate the possibilities in Spain with 1,327,000 francs ($252,130), got back a staggering 412 Spanish paintings plus 41 Italian and northern works of art. Added to these were 220 canvases willed by Scottish Admirer F. Hall Standish. Together they were one of the Louvre's greatest windfalls and lost opportunities. When Louis Philippe was forced to abdicate, he claimed the works as royal property, and they were sold in London after his death. "One does not dare to think of what the museum would have...