Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comment on his expansive style that he was nicknamed "Supremo" by staffers during World War II, when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia. To the royal family he was "Dickie" (though Richard was not one of his string of given names, which were Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
...based, players of interactive fiction respond to, and actually create, variances in the plot line by typing commands on the computer screen. For example, when Fahrenheit 451 is loaded into the computer, the following words appear on the screen: "You are in a clearing in dense woods in the southeast corner of Central Park. A pond is to the west. A narrow path leads north along the shore of the pond and to the north you can hear occasional low growls. Near you is a pile of dead leaves." If the player should then type, "Examine the leaves," the program...
...YORK - Thousands of Vietnam veterans who returned home to indifference or worse gathered yesterday in wheelchairs, military fatigues and business suits to help dedicate the city's memorial to those who fought in Southeast Asia...
Some 400 miles to the southeast, atop snow-covered Mount Palomar, Eugene Shoemaker, a geologist on leave from the U.S. Geological Survey, and his wife Carolyn, an asteroid astronomer, scurry around the unheated dome of the 18- in. Schmidt telescope. They photograph the sky in four-minute exposures, hunting for fast-moving objects against the background of the fixed stars. So far their Palomar study has identified 25 asteroids that cross the earth's orbit, bringing the known total to 60. Asteroids like this, they think, have occasionally crashed into the earth with catastrophic consequences, and they strive to calculate...
...Mount Baruk and along the once fortified slopes of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to mount their tanks and armored personnel carriers and head south. There came a shout: "To the trucks!" A whoop rose from the troops, and with that the Israeli army began withdrawing from the southeast sector of Lebanon, where 8,000 Israeli soldiers had faced 30,000 Syrians since the 1982 Israeli invasion...