Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia's Natural Bridge (which Hicks never saw but adopted from an engraving), or the Delaware Water Gap (which he may not have seen either). He certainly had never seen the grave of his idol William Penn, who was eventually buried at Jordans, in Buckinghamshire, 30 miles northwest of London. With typical disregard for mere historical fact, Hicks has substituted a hedge for the wall that surrounds the burying ground. But then, Hicks has no great interest in natural fact either. The "elm" under which Penn was supposed to have made his deal with the Indians conforms...
...long drive from Cornell to Army and a stiff northwest wind made the Cadets a tough team to beat...
...road between Phnom-Penh and Pochentong Airport was severed; suburbs to the northwest of the city fell; in the south, in the southwest, on the Mekong riverbank across from the capital's east side, insurgents rolled easily over government defenders. Highly accurate U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers, captured from government forces, were brought within range of the airport to support a punishing rebel ground assault. After a three-day-long seesaw battle, first the control tower and then the airfield fell...
...fighting to remind the South Vietnamese in the shrunken section under government control that the Communists were not far away. At midweek units of the North Vietnamese army and its Viet Cong allies started probing key government positions in the Saigon area. Often, as at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours before government troops drove them...
...excruciatingly slow and steady strangulation of Phnom-Penh approached a climax last week. Intensifying their already viselike grip on the capital, the Khmer Rouge insurgents pushed their way to within two to four miles of the city's northwest and east boundaries-a distance that allows deadly accuracy to the U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers the rebels have captured from government forces in the provinces. U.S. intelligence experts saw no hope for the defense of Phnom-Penh and predicted its final collapse, possibly within days...