Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only 14 summits, all of them in the crescent of mountains that runs from northern Pakistan southeast along the Himalayan chain to Sikkim, exceed this mysterious boundary between life and death. To climbers they are known as the eight-thousanders. And many of them, including Mount Everest, were conquered by mountaineers who fudged a little: they used bottled air. No one had ever conquered all 14 -- much less without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered...
Journalists saw the plane explode after the missile struck and crash into a valley four miles southeast of Sidon, and some reporters said the wreckage still smoldered 90 minutes later. One of the two pilots was reported taken prisoner and the other was reported killed...
...current problem has been brought on not by celestial visitors but, as biologists agreed during the four-day meeting in Washington, by man. They attribute the developing ecological disaster to the systematic destruction of the world's tropical rain forests, particularly those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Deforestation at the hands of loggers, farmers, ranchers and mining concerns, says Norman Myers, an environmental consultant based in Oxford, England, may result in the eradication of 1 million species by the end of the century. Harvard Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson concurs. "The extinctions ongoing worldwide," he says, "promise...
...prevailing literary wind this fall is from the Southeast. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy's high-blown family saga of coastal South Carolina, began to stir interest in May at the American Booksellers Association convention in New Orleans. Introduced by Walter Cronkite, Conroy regaled publishing executives and retailers with funny stories about his career and family. With just the right amount of country-boy shuffle, he told how his father, a rough Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother, a genteel Georgia beauty, gave new meaning to the word incompatibility. Conroy reminded everyone that his father was the model...
Hasenfus said he left the Marines in 1965 and then "took an employment with a company called Air America. This company worked in Southeast Asia...