Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearing his schedule of all other work, he rose as early as 4 a.m. at his brick, Cape Cod-style home in Northwest Washington, then drove to his office in the U.S. Court House to study law books and constitutional interpretations most of the day. He painstakingly revised his opinion several times, and not until noon of the day the opinion was to be delivered did he finally finish. Three hours later, his secretary handed out mimeographed copies to reporters in his wood-paneled chambers. Wearing a dark coat and gray slacks, Sirica stood by, shaking hands, extending polite greetings...
This year, Tokyoites have had still more reminders that they are, in effect, sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...
...itinerary includes Peking, Canton, the Yangtze Delta, and the Northwest or Yenan region, which was the guerrilla base of Mao Tse-tung during the revolution...
...handsome stone house he rents in Northwest Washington have darkrooms where he develops his own film. Says Baker: "He who retreats to the darkroom knows himself darn well. The solitude is good for you; it's a good antidote to public life...
...general, a New Zealand service station owner, a former Australian paper bag manufacturer, a young American couple and a New Zealand woman six months pregnant. They and a dozen or so companions were heading for the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti and 530 miles northwest of rocky Pitcairn Island. Their mission: to force the French government to abandon plans to explode a series of nuclear devices in the area...