Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest American campaign of the Viet Nam war raged last week in the thick jungle of Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon. Some 16,000 U.S. troops traded blows with an elusive Communist enemy that remained mostly hidden in his forest fastness, emerging occasionally to do vicious, bloody battle. So far, most of the blood was Red. In a week of fighting, more than 900 Viet Cong died...
...winds have their genesis over the Great Basin, a vast plateau that includes the Mojave Desert and is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada to the west. For reasons still not fully understood by meteorologists, dry winds from the north and northwest are occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls of the Rockies and the Sierra, the warm...
...miles-and, it seemed, as many handshakes-the President was ready to take off again. Having promised to stump all 50 states, Johnson plans to zip through 15 of them in four days to make good his word. He will dash from New England to the Midwest and the Northwest the first day, campaign along the West Coast the second, stop off in Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona...
...ghosts, they are descended from natives who occupied the Indo-Chinese peninsula long before the Chinese-related Vietnamese moved south some 1,700 years ago. The Vietnamese took over the rice-rich coastal plains and the Mekong Valley, pushing the aborigines into the rugged, jungle-thick mountains to the northwest...
...wore a white shirt and dark trousers, she said, had two gold teeth, and drove a blue 1958 Chevrolet with Texas plates. Mexican police immediately began a massive man hunt for all Americans who had crossed the border at Laredo on Oct. 12. In a dusty village 130 miles northwest of the murder scene, they picked up Simmons-and immediately freed him as the wrong...