Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knock northern sports, but to put it in a phrase I used many times this fall, "There just ain't nothin' like a Friday night or Saturday afternoon in Georgia...
...Russian news agency that Moscow had shot down a Western combat missile touched off a brief international crisis today, as several European countries and the U.S. scrambled for explanations. The report by Interfax, a Russian news agency, cited an unidentified military source reporting that a missile launched from northern Europe was destroyed at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST). The killer missile turned out to be a NASA-funded research rocket, launched from Oslo, Norway, to study the Northern lights. "We are a little puzzled by the report," said Erik Lanke, spokesman for the Norwegian Supreme Defense Command...
...setting is a fictional county in northern Florida, circa 1969; the narrator is Jack James, who has recently got himself kicked out of the state university, and now drives a delivery truck for the newspaper his father owns and edits, the Moat County Tribune. Jacks elder brother Ward has become a star reporter at the (also fictional) Miami Times as one-half of an investigative team; he and his partner, Yardley Acheman, have won statewide renown with stories on a plane crash and a fraternity-hazing death. These two fetch up in Moat County looking into the 1965 murder...
...Empire. But the U.S. and West European governments acknowledged without question Russia's right to hold the country together. Analogies are never exact, but the rough equivalent of siding with the Chechens would be defending the right of heavily Mexican areas of South Texas or the Basque region of northern Spain to declare themselves independent nations...
More pragmatically, a continuing military debacle in the northern Caucasus might not only push the core area of Russia back into a police state but also trigger additional declarations of independence throughout the ethnically and culturally varied Russian Federation. That could plunge the vast area stretching from the Arctic Ocean south to the Black Sea and from the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad clear across Eurasia to the North Pacific into chaos or civil war. At the most extreme, some Western analysts are whispering again a phrase last heard in 1991, when the Soviet Union was breaking up: "Yugoslavia with nukes...