Word: southward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore. Shielded from publicity by the nom de plume of Irma The Body and an ostrich plume cunningly wrapped about her as a gown, Miss Goodneighbor plys her trade with many giggles and transports of joy. These the censor would call obscene. Little wonder the textile industry is moving southward...
Four hours after landing in New Orleans, President Eisenhower turned his eyes to Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched...
...Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered southward over his aristocratic nose and voiced the opinion that Turkey was indeed "the sick man of Europe." Exactly 100 years later, an astute and wealthy Texan named George McGhee, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, looked out over the green plains of Anatolia and said: "You know what this country reminds me of? It's got the stuff, the git up and go, and it's rolling. Why, Turkey today is just like Texas...
...with running water. To keep cool in summer and warm in winter, each house will have what Le Corbusier calls "sunbreakers" - deeply recessed windows that will keep out the sun's hot rays when it is directly overhead, but will allow them to enter when the sun moves southward later in the year...
Three classes of racing bicycles--and a high wheeler--will begin pumping southward when the Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race opens here Sunday...