Word: northwest
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Peasants of the steep Mourgana region, the northwest roof of Greece, were horrified by the pedomasoma, but they were battered and half-starved by a decade of war, and few had the strength or cunning to resist. One who did was Eleni Gatzoyiannis of the little farm hamlet Lia. Though she had spent her life deferring to her father, a prosperous miller, and to her husband, a cook at a diner in far-off America who returned periodically to visit, Eleni was transformed by crisis into a leader: she organized the escape of 20 people of Lia, most of them...
...increase employment, how to trim back the military and make it more efficient. It is a new technocracy: it has no soul While bolstering the overall state of the economy would President Hart care if resources were fluting to the South and the West, while the industrial Northeast and Northwest were left to rot? When increasing general training, would this chief executive competition for minorities, who continue to get stuck with more unemployment and lower wages than the vest of the population? When fostering labor-management cooperation, would he take special action in those region of the country where...
...into the open on Palm Sunday, when Washington, accompanied by former Vice President Walter Mondale, went to pray at St. Pascal Church at the invitation of the pastor. NIGGER DIE was freshly spray-painted on one door of the Roman Catholic church on the city's lily-white northwest side. "Carpetbagger!" an angry crowd of about 200 standing outside shouted at Mondale. A cordon of police was needed to protect the pair as they quickly departed...
Every Tuesday night a tall, lean man with a white mustache arrives at a darkened and building about a mile northwest of the White House and jams a package into a crack between the glass doors of the entrance. In red crayon the package is marked the New Republic (whose offices are on the second floor), but addressed to no one in particular there; it is signed TRB. The need for secrecy vanished years ago-everyone knows that TRB's Washington column is written by Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-but Strout is a meticulous...
...tinge of racism that clung to the primary battle has raised nervous speculation about the city's chances. The weekend before the election, Cook County Democratic Chairman Edward R. Vrdolyak allegedly announced to white precinct leaders on the city's Northwest side that the primary had become "a racial thing" and contended that it was a battle between Byrne and Washington. "I'm calling on you to save your city, to save your precinct," he was quoted as saying. Nor had the Democratic organization rallied around Washington, mainly because of opposition in many of the city's white neighborhoods...