Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rann of Kutch to Pakistan, suddenly announced that it, and not India, controlled the uninhabited island. The Ceylonese, who are predominantly Buddhist, based their claim largely on the fact that St. Anthony's church on Kachcha Tivu fell within the diocese of the Roman Catholic bishop of the northern Ceylonese city of Jaffna...
...annual slaughter increased in brutality each year until finally in 1860 the Faculty outlawed its existence. There were, in that year, better ways for Northern gentlemen to vent their spleen. With an air of defiance, a group of players held a funeral service--complete with procession and eulogy for the sport. They dug a grave and buried a pigskin. Football at Harvard was officially dead...
Under a sign exhorting "Stand Up for America," Wallace mounted a rostrum at the Pittsburgh Hilton to address his first Northern audience since announcing for the presidency. While an S.R.O. crowd of 2,000 cheered and shouted "Amen!" and "Tell it like it is, George!", Alabama's former Governor sneered, winked and thundered through a 50-minute attack on everything from the Supreme Court to his favorite target, "pseudo-intellectuals." When it was over, he had in hand a thousand more signatures than the 10,551 needed to place his American Independent Party on Pennsylvania's presidential ballot...
...Short Month. Menacing as the situation appeared around Saigon, the main enemy threat still hung over the northern provinces below the DMZ. The siege around Khe Sanh closed tighter than ever; the outpost is now surrounded by two divisions and a regiment. As the NVA crept closer and closer to the camp's perimeter, one probing patrol of South Vietnamese Rangers hardly got outside the camp when they came under heavy enemy attack and had to retreat. In a way, the entire northern edge of South Viet Nam has come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength...
Year after year, in northern France's flat and foggy coal-mining town of Harnes, the girls of the Duhamel textile factory toiled away sewing trousers and parkas. One day in July 1966, as Léon Duhamel was wishing some of his 500 employees bonnes vacances, he was stunned to find that practically all spent even their vacations in dreary Harnes. To remedy that, he devised a scheme of "snow and sew" and this winter put it to the test...