Word: northward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trucks dash up, hauling crates of food and medicines. Eventually, crews as varied as their airplanes - Swedes, Finns, Americans, a stolid Yorkshireman, a not so dour Scot - screech up in cars and climb aboard. One by one, at 20-minute intervals, the cargo planes lumber down the runway, turn northward toward the Nigerian coast. Late afternoon sunlight splashes on little blue and gold fish, the fuselage emblems of the interfaith airlift organized by the World Council of Churches and the Catholic relief organization Caritas to shuttle food to starving Biafra...
...bleary eyes. "I go to Harvard." The bleary eyes close and open again. "You go to HARVARD, says the girl with boots from across the aisle. "I go to RADCLIFFE!" "You go to Radcliffe," says the girl next to us. "I go to Pembroke." The train chugs its mystery northward to the snow and the quiet of brick and cobble. "Hazen's, you see, is this restaurant where you can go and you know all these people are there and you go with your roommates at eleven o'clock and it's really great. I live in Adams House...
...shares at $8 each was quickly oversubscribed, and shares rose to about $12.50 by week's end. New capital will enable Parks to expand his model sausage factory in Baltimore and to fatten his rather limited product line. About 12,000 stores on the East Coast from Virginia northward market Parks pork sausages and scrapple. Soon to come are quick-cooking sausages, beef sausages, and what Parks calls "the whole line of Southern foods, such as barbecued anything...
...curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic, but leaving the bearded airman-turned-seaman...
...vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But it was the 320th's last lunge. Under artillery and air strikes, it was forced to retreat northward, leaving 856 of its dead behind, as U.S. jets pursued and pounded its remnants. The Marines lost 68 dead, had 323 wounded seriously enough to require evacuation...