Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During my term of service as a chaplain in the Southwest Pacific I met only one soldier who thought he had been helped by a psychiatrist, but I ministered to many who had been tragically crippled mentally by psychiatric technique that was geared out of all proportion...
From the lone wooded crag dominating the valley of Mercuès in Southwest France, plunderer, paladin and prelate had watched the pageant of Europe pass by over 20 centuries. Last week to Mercuès' lofty height, awkwardly and at last, came the people...
...Officially, he is secretary of the Southern California Tennis Association; actually, he is dictator of his region's junior tennis. Jones decides which youngsters are invited to the important tournaments, which are sent on all-expense-paid tennis trips. (Most of the revenue comes from the big Pacific-Southwest tournament; occasionally Jones quietly helps boys out of his own pocket.) Among his ex-protégés: Ellsworth Vines, Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder...
...islands that had been a naturalists' paradise became in war a sunset home for soldiers & sailors. For the G.I., Seymour (smallest of the 16 islands of consequence, 990 miles southwest of the Panama Canal) was The Rock-the never-never land of igneous boulders and shifting red dust, the U.S. Army's beachhead on the moon...
...small boats got off in fine weather, close-hauled in a fresh breeze. Eight hours later, the big ones lit out in pursuit and disappeared into a fog bank to the southwest. The breeze stayed fresh all the first day & night, the seas quiet. Nobody got sick. Most skippers, leery of the Gulf Stream's northeastward drift, worked up to windward (but the stream carried one boat 210 miles off course). First into the stream was the 54-ft. ketch Malabar XIII, skippered and designed by white-haired John G. Alden. The flat weather gave light-air boats...