Word: southwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with tanks, halftracks and artillery, first by barge and later across bridges hastily constructed north of the Great Bitter Lake. By week's end the force of 15,000 men was making headway in a three-pronged assault on the western bank of the canal: northward toward Ismailia, southward toward Port Suez and westward toward Cairo...
...dilemma cannot finally be resolved by the Chilean events. A stronger sense of internationalism by the world Left, particularly in the United States, would certainly have lessened Popular Unity's difficulties. Had U.S. aid, other than military assistance, continued to flow southward, for example, perhaps the Chilean crisis would not have become so intense...
...squad took a day off to visit Florence, where Robert Watson, director of athletics, met them. After the Florence sidetrip, Harvard continued southward to Parma for a 3-0 shutout victory and then to Palerno for another slugfest, which they...
...drought has caused even greater disruption in Upper Volta, where a southward migration of more than a million people is under way. Nomads are pouring into Ivory Coast and Ghana in a search for grazing lands. Their starving animals are poaching on cropland tended by subsistence farmers. The result has been a number of pitched battles, similar to those between cattlemen and sodbusters in America's Old West...
...estimated that since Jan. 1, the Communists had moved some 40,000 men plus 300 tanks, 150 heavy artillery pieces, 160 antiaircraft guns and 300 trucks down the trail. The only important change from pre-cease-fire days, in fact, seemed to be that the North Vietnamese were driving southward in broad daylight, since they were no longer fearful of U.S. air strikes. The trail, says one American analyst, "looks like the New Jersey Turnpike during rush hour...