Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crescent Flag. One focus of the trouble lies in the northwest. There, in the Ili valley where the flag of China should fly, a green flag with a yellow crescent moon and a five-pointed star has flown for nearly three years. The region contains about a million people (total Sinkiang population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than...
Shooting a Splinter. But Emma was not done. She shot a tornadic splinter straight through the heart of the little northwest Florida town of Apalachicola. Then, still producing 90-m.p.h. winds, she thundered up out of the Gulf into Mississippi and Louisiana...
Harold Stassen rolled into Pendleton, Ore. for the Northwest cow country's famed annual rodeo. He went through the hat routine for distinguished guests: Pendletonians tried to fit him with a cowboy hat, finally found one almost big enough for such a big visitor. Stassen, who wears a 7⅞, settled for a 7⅝. He did what a presidential candidate ought to do: risked his dignity by riding a horse through Pendleton's horse-riding populace. Said ex-Navyman Stassen: "At least I've ridden a little more than Admiral Halsey...
That was a year ago, and Miller's fame spread through the Georgia backcountry. Last fortnight he got up another shout in Summerville, a county seat in the northwest corner of the state. It started just before sundown, and by 10:30 the moaning and shouting and singing were going strong. Then Preacher Miller brought out the "salvation cocktail." He shouted: "Brother Davis, do you believe in the power of the Lord great enough to take what's in this bottle?" Farmer Ernest Davis, 34, grabbed the glass, took several gulps...
...baker's dozen of local businessmen stockholders. But after a close look at Publisher Howard Parish's records he backed away; they showed that the Star was losing over $700 a day. Stern had planned to take over the option of Sheldon Sackett, an over-extended Northwest press lord. On July 31 the option lapsed, but Stern kept on dickering...