Word: southwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three other major factors with which the Protestant African missions will have to deal, says Dr. Van Dusen, are: 1) "the whirlwind of social, economic and political dislocations which are sweeping from the west coast eastward and southward"; 2) the multiplying activities of governments in fields previously dominated by the missions; 3) the expansion of Roman Catholicism, "especially in French, Belgian, Portuguese and Spanish territories...
...toothed border that runs from the Sea of Galilee southward to the Dead Sea, separating Israel from Jordan, is perhaps the most troubled border in the world. Each day, with brutal monotony, half a dozen people die there...
...efforts to build up their reserves during the lull, the U.S. Fifth Air Force sent hundreds of Thunder-jets, Shooting Stars and Mustangs ranging over Communist camping grounds in western Korea. Night-raiding B-26 and B-29 bombers struck at Communist supply bases and transport columns rolling southward towards the front. The Reds retaliated with a propaganda attack: a Communist plane dropped leaflets on U.S. lines showing American civilians relaxing in Caribbean sunshine. Front-line loudspeakers played Christmas carols. Through the imperfect loudspeaker transmission, some listeners thought they heard the phrase, in imperfect English: "We want to go home...
Jammed up on the roads leading southward toward Hanoi last week were scores of similar dumps testifying to the weight and seriousness of Communist General Giap's attack. It was a three-front fight: 1) in the mountainous jungles of the Black River country, where 10,000 Thais, Moroccans and Legionnaires held a 130-mile line against three Viet Minh divisions; 2) in the. Red River valley, where a wedge of French armor, backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops, linked up with French paratroops dropped in the enemy rear; 3) in the Hanoi delta, where Giap had touched...
...raise the water level of Narragansett Bay ten feet while leaving the rest of New England relatively undamaged, he has this newspaper's support, sight unseen. For abutting chat bay is Providence, Rhode Island, a squatty town of several hundred thousand people. As anyone who headed southward this weekend now well knows, there is no excuse for Providence...