Word: northwest
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Nonetheless, Churchill pushed himself into five wars in as many years. In all of them he managed to double as a war correspondent, thus launching the first of his many celebrated careers. After covering British campaigns on India's Northwest Frontier and in the Sudan-where he figured conspicuously in one of history's last great cavalry charges-Churchill also turned out excellent books on the fighting. He had honed his style with extensive reading: Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Macaulay's History of England, Plato's Republic, Darwin's On the Origin...
...hybrid dogwood. "Eddie's White Wonder," sold by Ohio's Wayside Gardens, is a cross between the Northwest's magnificent Cornus Nuttalli and the East's hardier Cornus Florida...
...South. The location of the three new plants reflects a significant trend. Plywood makers have begun to move into the South in force, ending a regional monopoly in softwood plywood that the Douglas-fir-growing Pacific Northwest has enjoyed for decades. In the past year, three new mills have opened in Texas and Arkansas to make plywood from the faster-growing Southern pine. Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's biggest producer of timber products, is building a plant at Plymouth, N.C. Vancouver Plywood is at work on two plants in Louisiana, and at least eleven other firms are planning...
Plywood is migrating South partly to save freight (the South is nearer to most markets than the Northwest) and partly to take advantage of the South's rising supply of available timber, but it is a new technology that makes the move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...
...will be buried near his father and mother in a small rural churchyard in Bladon, 70 miles northwest of London, on the Blenheim estate where he was born