Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southeast, Southwest. Arizona (3), New Mexico (3), Texas (23), Arkansas (9), Louisiana (10), Mississippi (9), Alabama (11), Georgia (12), Florida (7), North Carolina (13), South Carolina (8), Virginia (11), Oklahoma (11)-all safely Roosevelt...
...long, dark green train standing in the Northern Pacific yards in Seattle quivered with the first tug of the engine, jolted a little as it gained speed, whistled as it raced toward the East. The Willkie Special was headed for home; the campaign tour that had led through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds, the effect of Willkie on them-until...
...plane the challenger entered California. His technique had improved consistently. He had been booed, heckled and hooted at by scattered partisans throughout the Southwest; but had turned off the hecklers neatly on most occasions. He had moved in close to the microphone. He had drawn unprecedented crowds. Still he had flopped repeatedly. Only in California did train observers begin to realize that they had set an impossibly high standard for Wendell Willkie-that they had expected him to leap from political miracle to miracle until he appeared in a burning bush on Election...
Rangers of Fortune (Paramount) is a dreamy description of three restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom...
...Dodecanese (Twelve Islands) are really 13 islands off the southwest of Turkey which Italy grabbed in 1912 during the scrap with Turkey for Tripoli. Rhodes is the biggest of them. Being unable to raise so much as a smoke screen from the Latin enemy, the Eastern Mediterranean Command decided to bite at the Dodecanese and hope for an answer...