Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emma moved steadily westward, then veered northward off the Virgin Islands. Meteorologists figured that she would probably keep on going northward-as most Caribbean hurricanes have done before -through a low-pressure trough created by two high-pressure banks. But the "highs" converged so fast that the big 'cane's northward path was blocked. For six hours, she stood ominously still near the Bahamas. When she started to roll again, she headed westward, straight for Florida's southeast Gold Coast...
Meanwhile, at Westminster, Western Maryland, college officials pondered the fate of a doughty band of 27 undergraduates reported about 13 miles east of Hartford and 30 miles from the Massachusetts border. Earlier, four-and possibly five-of the group were eliminated from the northward trek by truck...
...accessible only by plane. But when proof was needed of the Russian evacuation of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, a bureau correspondent hopped into a plane flown by the American Embassy's air attache, an ex-fighter pilot, in order to see the Russian troop convoys pulling away northward from Tabriz...
...U.S.S. Missouri steamed northward through blue, tropical seas, Harry Truman relaxed. Every day he was up early, tramping the decks for an early morning constitutional. He prowled and poked around the "Mighty Mo's" intricate innards, inspected the enlisted men's mess, chatted with sailors...
After the wedding he repaired to his beloved estate of Loch Eck in Argyllshire. His housekeeper there had complained that a local witch was slowly destroying a stone wall that obstructed a path used by witches northward bound to sabbat revels. Inverchapel ordered the wall repaired. Then he solemnly exorcised the witch. Among the paraphernalia of exorcism: a fire on the house terrace, burning brandy, and champagne (taken internally by those in attendance). The housekeeper was satisfied. After all, she said, it was probably only a "wee witch...