Word: northwest
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...students (apart from adults), of whom 80% are the first in their families to attend college. The faculty has grown from 250 to 1,150. By the end of the decade, with completion of a second permanent campus now rising out of the wheatfields near Edwardsville, 110 miles northwest of Carbondale, the university's capacity will reach 36,000 students...
...increased in two years from an average of 300 a week to 600. For the week ending April 18, casualties for both sides reached 1,710, highest in any week since the war began. At a U.S.-run training camp near Trunglap (which means, ironically, "neutrality"), only 25 miles northwest of Saigon, the Viet Cong ambushed and killed an American sergeant and seven Vietnamese rangers...
Alaska is a churning focus of just such action. A rock current under the crust is pushing North America into the Pacific, where another current is moving toward the northwest. The two currents are at right angles to each other, and their force makes the crust yield sideways, forming the great Fairweather Fault running up the Alaskan coast. The fault is a prolific spawning ground for earthquakes, and at its northern end is another source of seismic trouble: the great Aleutian Arc, which was formed by Siberia pressing southeastward into the Pacific and is dotted with active volcanoes. The Fairweather...
Referring to two expressways, the Inner Belt and the Northwest Express- way, that are expected to be constructed through East Cambridge, he charged that "Not one of these (anti-underpass) people ever lifted a voice or a pen to help the 1500 families" who will probably be evicted by the expressways...
Burned City. After mobilizing 130 Arab laborers from nearby villages, Dr. Pritchard sank 30 pits at the northwest part of the mound. The much-eroded surface layer was probably the remains of the last city to occupy the mound, apparently abandoned about 700 B.C. A few feet below the surface were the floors, streets and wall-footings of an older city that was destroyed by fire. Grey wood ash was everywhere, sometimes mixed with charred beams and mud from fallen roofs...