Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars & Bars. Fearful of dangerous overcrowding, U.S. Army authorities tried, without success, to keep too many former residents from returning to their city, but the old inhabitants streamed northward into the city over the one usable bridge in ever-increasing numbers. By last week, Seoul's population, once 1,500,000 and recently as low as 150,000, was climbing again to 800,000. Men, women & children worked side by side in the streets hauling away rubble in improvised rattan sledges. Streetcars, blistered, bullet-pocked and windowless, picked their way cautiously along the city's network of trolley...
From the sunbaked, palm-dotted town of Tuxtla Gutiérrez near the Guatemalan border, 97 carefully tuned automobiles set off last week on the first northward lap of the second Pan-American stock-car race, a five-day, 1,933-mile scramble sponsored by Mexico's National Automobile Association. Competing with Mexican speed demons for $68,000 in prizes-and the glory of beating some of the world's nerviest racers to Ciudad Juarez-were two-man teams from the U.S., Canada, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, France and Italy. Ahead of them were the hairpin curves, roller-coaster...
...paratroopers cut the Viet Minh communications wire, captured a Viet Minh convoy on its way northward with salt. But they found Hoa Binh burned-out and deserted. The only local inhabitant to meet them was pretty 25-year-old Nguyen Thi Ky. Her arms loaded with silver bracelets, her teeth painted an artistic black, she nervously approached the paratroopers, holding out an old laissez passer bearing General de Lattre's picture. When Nguyen Thi Ky explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship...
...isotherms (i.e., lines of equal temperature) shift northward on the weatherman's maps, the northern limits of warmth-loving crops move northward, too. In eastern Canada, cereals can be grown 100 miles farther north than ever before. The change is due partly to better varieties and better cultivation methods, but partly to milder Canadian climate. Southern Ontario is already experimenting with cotton...
...change of climate, said Dr. Kimble, extends all over the lands surrounding the North Atlantic. In Russia the southern limit of permafrost (permanently frozen ground) is receding northward up to 100 yards a year. Many Norwegian slopes are raising barley where only grass grew before. Even the fish of the North Atlantic are taking advantage of the change. The cod, which are very sensitive to temperature changes, have migrated northward some 500 miles since...