Word: northward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugees from the north, nourishing the dream of liberating their native land. This is not only the ardent wish of thousands of families in the south with relatives who went to the north. This is also the fervent wish of the religious sects, and of the students . . . The push northward [is] an appropriate means of fulfilling our national history." Then the little general led the throng in loud shouts of "Bac lien!" ("To the north...
Much of Russia's anger at China's pretensions to lead Asia and Africa mingles with immemorial fears of the invading "Golden Horde" and "the Yellow Peril." Russia's course eastward to the Pacific has collided with China's course northward to the empty spaces of Siberia. Khrushchev and all Russians must be deeply worried by the thought that in 1970, they may be living next door to hundreds of millions of hostile Chinese who by then will probably have nuclear weapons...
...much these tactics will be used is anybody's guess. The rumors which make their way northward range from "wholesale jailing" to "sporadic harrassment." COFO recruiters do not hesitate to warn prospective applicants of the possibility that they may be beaten, or shot at, and are discouraging northern white girls from applying. The real truth right now is that probably no one--not even Mississippi officials--really knows what will happen...
...months later, while he was serving as a baker's delivery boy, he bought his first fur pelt on the New York waterfront in exchange for some sugar buns. Aided by a loan from his older brother, Astor established headquarters in the Catskills and trekked westward and northward from there...
...Harvard hockey varsity will wend its way northward today to Waterville, Maine--a small town noted chiefly for the enveloping stench of paper mills-- to confront a Colby College sextet. Nicknamed, surely for good reason, the White Mules, the collegians from Colby have a reputation for being "keen" on hockey, according to Crimson coach Cooney Weiland...