Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, ignorant little Ovida ("Cricket") Coogler was a product of New Mexico's political corruption. Her world did not include the Southwest's fabled wide-open spaces. Cricket had been a barfly since she was 14. She had her good points-she helped support her widowed mother and worked hard as a waitress. But, like many another teenager, she was chiefly interested in excitement, romance and escape from throttling poverty...
...Connecticut turned the $1,200,000 into a special fund that still helps the state's schools, and invested some of the money in Ohio mortgages. Last week, by act of the Connecticut legislature, a single remaining acre southwest of Toledo was handed back to Ohio...
Next morning the correspondents got up early for a 6 a.m. takeoff. Heading southwest for Bombay, the Franeker had 32 crewmen and passengers aboard, besides the 13 correspondents...
...Germany; iron-willed Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens, senior officer on board, ordered a westward dash. Systematically the Admiralty planted every available cruiser and destroyer across likely lines of escape. At 10:30 a.m. on May 26, the Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George V, backed up by the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, cruisers and destroyers, was ready to shoot it out with her. The Bismarck was alone; Prinz Eugen had escaped, was later spotted by aircraft...
Dworkin, Ronald Myles of 167 Laurel Avenue, Providence, R. I.; Classical High, Providence, Hammer, Louis Zelig of 324 West Main Street, Norwich, Conn.; Norwich Free Academy. Kaiser, Walter Jacob of 285 Southwest Street, Bellevue, Ohio; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Kanter, Carl Irwin of 23 Abbott Avenue, Danbury, Conn.; Danbury High...