Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to outline the Communist threat in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Moving across the map he came at last to Western Europe and the long-simmering plan , for creation of a single European Defense Community. Said he: "That's a good idea and it has had in this country bipartisan support. Unfortunately, the plan now seems to be somewhat stalled...
There is probably no finer house in Malaya than Bukit Serene (peaceful hill), the green-tiled granite palace of the Sultan of Johore. But the Sultan has never occupied Bukit Serene. Four years ago he was persuaded to let it indefinitely to Malcolm MacDonald, the British commissioner general in Southeast Asia, at a nominal rent-just enough to pay the wages of the palace's 37 gardeners...
Blood Lines & Appetite. The Abenlens, says Dr. Ellinger, are among the last remnants of a race that crossed a land bridge from Southeast Asia 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. They are reserved and antisocial, and may never have intermarried with their neighbors. They are still pagan, illiterate and rumored to be cannibals who make drinking cups from human skulls and eat the hearts and livers of their victims...
...each cable break, the oceanographers could estimate closely how fast the turbidity current flowed. On the sloping continental rise (at the foot of the continental slope), it raced at 50 knots (57.6 m.p.h.). More than 13 hours later, when it cut the last cable 300 miles to the southeast, the mud was still flowing at 12 knots (13.8 m.p.h.). It must have spread for hundreds of miles over the flat ocean floor...
...they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle Is Neutral (TIME, Sept...