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Word: southwards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Three-Front War | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...notice was publicly posted when four radar picket destroyers escorted the 70-plane carrier Shangri-La southward from Florida into the Caribbean. In response to requests from Guatemala and Nicaragua, said President Eisenhower, the U.S. would maintain a patrol to halt the shipment of arms or volunteers from Castro's Cuba to aid revolutionaries in those Central American countries. The U.S. intention had been less formally asserted weeks before when part of the 8th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1,500 men aboard the assault carrier Boxer and accompanying ships, began conducting training exercises in the Caribbean area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Notice Posted | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Next to the Great Nile itself, Egypt's most awesome geographical feature is the Qattara Depression. Shaped like some splayfooted giant's footprint, this enormous sinkhole in the desert west of Cairo begins with a heel 35 miles south of the Mediterranean shore and then runs southward into the desert for some 185 miles. Covered with rock salt and slimy quicksand, Qattara is as desolate and lifeless as anything this side of the moon. Only generals have ever placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: World's Biggest Sinkhole | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Halleck or Interior Secretary Fred Seaton of Nebraska. If Texas' Lyndon Johnson is not on the Democratic ticket, and if Nixon decides to make a bir effort to hold the Southern states that President Eisenhower captured in 1956 -Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Louisiana-the geographical emphasis might shift southward. Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton or, especially, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson (a Texan and an erstwhile Democrat) could provide the necessary Southern accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Veep, Anyone? | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Canyon in the north, where the Colorado River cuts the most spectacular incision anywhere in earth's surface, the Arizona landscape sweeps eastward to the gaudy Painted Desert, takes in the stone trees of Petrified Forest, the cinder mountains piled up by a geological era of active volcanoes. Southward lie the butte-strewn sands where Apache Chief Geronimo waged the last Indian Wars upon whites, the rich, old copper mines producing one-half of U.S. needs, such legendary towns as Tombstone, where Gunslingers Wyatt Earp & Co. built the legends that feed to day's TV. Along the Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARIZONA: THRIVING OASIS Energy Fills the Open Spaces | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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