Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were staging their first joint maneuvers to show how fast they could come to the aid of their ally. A task force of U.S., British, Australian and New Zealand warships knifed northward through the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Siam. Crisp and impressive, 650 Philippine infantrymen rolled ashore from a U.S. seaplane tender in the harbor. U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars, lugging men and arms from Japan, came up like thunder across the South China...
...Cauca River rises in the mountains of southern Colombia, foams furiously down their steep slopes, then runs placidly northward through a balmy (average temperature 78°), verdant valley. The Cauca Valley, twelve miles wide and 125 miles long, is the country's most bounteous food producer-bananas, sugar, potatoes, coffee, rice, beef, milk. Its center is the warmhearted city of Cali, whose 500.000 inhabitants manage to combine plenty of industrial zip (in tires, leather, drugs, textiles) with a pleasant, semitropical way of life that still reserves the time from noon to 2:30 for lunch and siesta...
...storm sweeps northward, shore stations and offshore Texas towers will measure its waves. Their radars will plot the streams of rain. If the hurricane hits land, Army engineers will collect flood data; the Hydrographic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Survey will observe wave effects. The enormous mass of information will be put on punch cards, fed into a machine and turned into a clear report of how the hurricane is behaving and is likely to behave...
Before heading northward to Canada on his way home, Eden summed up: "We covered, I think, pretty well every imaginable topic while we went through these three days of discussion. We found a wider measure of agreement on them than I had expected when we arrived here ... I don't think we can have too much of this sort of mixing up, and I am sure it is an advantage . . ." He added a personal note: "These have been the most encouraging three days I have spent among you in Washington -and I have been on many journeys...
...world's strangest streams, the Mojave (pronounced Mohahvee) is born in the snow melt of the San Bernardinos, disappears underground, here and there marking its strange northward course by popping unaccountably above the .surface of the sand. At one place, east of Victorville, Calif., it forms a subterranean reservoir as big as Tahoe, the state's largest lake...