Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court's new decree, answering an Illinois petition backed by seven other Mississippi Valley states and actively opposed only by Wisconsin among the Great Lakers: a temporary (through Jan. 31) increase to 8,500 cu. ft. a second. The effects were magical. Within hours, twelve oil barges started northward from New Orleans, and by week's end, as Army engineers opened the Chicago and inland locks in easy stages, the jam-up at Alton lock was well on its way to being eased...
...which Saul and Jonathan had used to fall upon the Philistines centuries earlier. The Bible told just where to find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash. and the other southward over against Gibeah." A few years ago Israeli Businessman Xiel Federmann began to brood over the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ("and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace"), guessed such conflagrations might...
...speed was 18 or 19 knots, and the night, he testified, was clear, with good visibility and a full view of the moon. As Stockholm sliced eastward from New York Harbor toward Nantucket lightship, he was bothered only by ocean currents that pulled the ship two or three miles northward off course, and by the need to keep a weather eye on the duty helmsman, who was sometimes "more interested in sur rounding things than in the compass...
Last week, while India looked northward unhappily, Chinese and Nepalese negotiators in Katmandu toasted each other in orange soda pop and signed an eight-year treaty of trade and friendship drawn up in Peking. Under its terms the first Chinese Communist consulate will shortly open in Katmandu, and other Chinese "trade agencies" will be set up elsewhere on Nehru's side of the Himalayas. "Traders" in both Nepal and Tibet will enjoy diplomatic immunity, be free to transmit messages by wireless code and courier without police inspection...
...immigrants lingered long enough in the city to partake of Tammany's good deeds. Some pushed northward, across the Catskills, the Mohawk Valley and the Adirondacks as far as frigid Franklin County on the Canadian border. Others moved westward across the muck flats around Syracuse to Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania line. They found themselves part of a statewide complex that had reacted against the political and economic power of the city. They discovered that their tax dollars were winding up in the pockets of Tammany's corrupt sachems. Many joined with native sons...