Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDITIONS CIRCULATION TIME U.S 3,100,000 Eastern 1,170,000 East-Central 685,000 West-Central 220,000 Southeast 205,000 Southwest 180,000 Pacific Southwest 460,000 Pacific Northwest 130,000 New York Metropolitan 370,000 Los Angeles Metropolitan 180,000 Chicago Metropolitan 130,000 College Student Demographic 275,000 Educators' Demographic 135,000 Doctors' Demographic...
Canadian High. While the Pacific Northwest was suffering, the rest of the U.S. was enjoying unusually calm and warm winter weather. The Canadian High, another meteorological fixture, moved southward to cover the central part of the continent, protecting it from arctic cold and keeping the bad weather of the Pacific from penetrating much beyond the Rocky Mountains...
After ten days, the Pacific High pulled itself together again. The normal pattern of northwest winter weather brought cold air from Alaska. Snowfall put ski resorts back in business again. The steep rivers stopped foaming, and river towns began cleaning up the debris left by floods. Then, early last week, the sheltering Pacific High broke in two once more, and another wind from Hawaii headed for California. Another warning went out, and inhabitants of flood-damaged towns headed for the hills...
Johnson mentioned four possible sites -all of them publicly discussed on earlier occasions-for a sea-level canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific without need of locks. One is a 95-mile route in northwest Colombia, another a 168-mile route slicing through Costa Rica and Nicaragua: the remaining two are in Panama itself-one running 60 miles through the southern Darien wilderness and the other, the present 51-mile waterway, which would need considerable widening and deepening to eliminate the locks. Johnson gave no hint as to which route the U.S. preferred, saying only, "I have asked...
Anyone with a radio set-either transmitter or receiver-was considered a spy, calling in "Yankee" help against the cause. Sister Anne-Maria Merkens, mother superior of a mission hospital at Bondamba, 300 miles northwest of Stan, owned a tiny transistor radio. Simbas in leopardskins appeared in mid-September, accused the nuns of sending messages to the Americans, even though the radio was only capable of receiving signals. They returned a few weeks later, killed the mission's cows, stole its chickens and rice. On their next visit, they abducted schoolgirls aged 7 to 14, spent the night sniffing...