Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snow lay 25 inches deep. The houses were dark, the beerhalls deserted. Everything about the little (pop. 3,700) copper-mining community of Houghton, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, suggested rural serenity...
Every war breeds its balladeers, and Viet Nam is no exception. Xenophon's Greek mercenaries marched "up country" into the Persian empire 2,300 years ago to the rhythm of harshly sung battle hymns; Wellington's light infantry quick-stepped through the Iberian peninsula to the bugles of Over the Hills and Far Away. Pershing's doughboys remarked the lack of lingerie in Armentieres, while Rommel's Afrika
...bauxite, Japan has signed a ten-year agreement for 1,000,000 tons a year, to be mined at Cape York Peninsula, Australia...
...houses of Acapulco's new jet-setters, like Merle Pagliai's gleaming white villa, are almost all on the eastward side of the bay. This places them away from the older, shabbier part of the harbor town, with its cluster of old streets and peninsula boulevard busy with buses and horse-drawn surreys. Developed haphazardly, with a strong flavor of claptrap and ticky-tacky, the magnificent sweep of beaches has seen the tide of tourism rise, then ebb. Now it is rising again, to fill the well-appointed hotels for the average tourist -El Presidente, Acapulco Hilton...
...guarantee the national integrity of our allies in Southeast Asia. By using American economic and social programs now rather than later, the United States can help promote the reforms which make "wars of national liberation" less likely. And the Americans will still have sea and air power around the peninsula to bolster by implication those allies who might otherwise quake before the threat of Chinese military might. With a more realistic use of our resources in Southeast Asia, the dominoes need never fall...