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...Montana, the rising Missouri River and its tributaries oozed through levees, inundated 16 towns, caused $4,000,000 damages, forced 3,000 inhabitants to run for the hills. As the crest, nurtured by more than a week of rain, flowed southeastward, apprehensive citizens prepared for the worst...
From Wheeling the Eisenhower special went southeastward across the Alleghenies to stop at Martinsburg, W.Va. Ike picked up a motorcade for a short circuit across western Maryland, reboarded his train at Frederick, rolled through the suburbs of Washington, then northward to Baltimore...
...Indians who settled at Sheguindah, says Digger Lee, probably stayed for some 2,000 years; then, about 5,000 years ago, they pushed southeastward across Ontario. Rain and snow kept topsoil from forming on the sloping camp site, and many discarded artifacts lay on the ground last summer just as they had for 50 centuries. Archaeologist Lee gathered up every trace of man-chipped stone he could find before he went quietly away. This summer he returned with a group of students to dig deeper...
...crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south via the sheltered passages inside the Atlantic coastline. One morning last week, the ship chugged down Bogue Sound into the rough Atlantic, just off the North Carolina shore. The navigator set a compass course southeastward towards St. Thomas...
White Death. Sleep leaned on his eyelids, pressed down on his brain like a weight. Flying southeastward over the Canadian Rockies, he fell asleep. When he awoke an hour and 40 minutes later, he was flying almost due north. All around him, white-fanged peaks glinted in the moonlight. "I looked up and I was headed for a huge cloud. No, I thought, that's not a cloud." It was the top of Mount Logan, 19,850 feet high. "I just pulled back on the wheel and spiraled right up ... before I straightened out for home...