Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered a simple but tasty article called "squaw candy": a fillet of salmon dry-smoked over a low fire...
...Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev accused Iran of discussing a mutual defense agreement with the U.S. and sharply warned the Zahedi government against doing so. Iran replied that it would join any bloc it deemed necessary to its own defense. Those were audacious words to deliver to its powerful northern neighbor, which has long claimed a special interest in Iran...
...Indian policemen had temporarily abandoned their attempts to capture Man Singh, the most successful bandit leader of modern Indian history (TIME, July 19). But deep in the lush northern Indian jungles, protected by the monsoon rains, superstitious Bandit Man Singh was still going strong last week. He had prepared a sacrifice to the goddess Kali; tied to stakes before a stone idol were two terrified Indian policemen. While dacoits, members of Man Singh's band of robbers, chanted hymns, a priest reverently bathed the idol's feet, then sprinkled water from the same pitcher on the victims...
Cease-Fire. Each commander shall order his forces to stop hostilities on the following dates: Northern Viet Nam on July 27, Central Viet Nam on Aug. 1 and Southern Viet...
Paved highway took the contestant across the Northern Territory on the long (1,051 miles) run to Darwin. South and west across the "Outback" to the coast, the road was a nightmare of anthills and black "bulldust." Angry stockmen, who declared that the cars were frightening cattle, locked their gates and forced the travelers to detour. Indignant aborigines brandished tomahawks at the noisy invaders. Bush flies descended in swarms on bone-tired drivers taking catnaps. And in the tiny pearl-fishing town of Broome, the car crews found hardly enough food and beer to go around. By then, 88 entrants...