Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor of Broadway Mansions, Shanghai's tallest apartment building, tenants saw sharp flashes of cannon fire across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers. At one point on the Woosung defense perimeter, Nationalist troops threw back the attackers after a bitter hand-to-hand battle...
Their gadding about follows the tradition that Joseph Linz, a St. Louis watchmaker, began when he set up shop in the railroad town of Denison, Tex. in 1877, not long after the last big Indian raid. He sent brother Albert Linz roaming the Southwest by buggy and train, sleeping in railroad stations with his head pillowed on his jewel box, while he and two other brothers-Simon and Ben-ran the store...
Some people of the Southwest believe that the coyote never dies, some that the yowling beasts can talk, in Indian languages and Mexican-Spanish. Nobody is better qualified to round up all such legends, and more factual reports on the canny coyote, than Texas' shock-haired Professor Dobie, who knows as much about the Southwest as any man (Coro-nado's Children, Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver), and who has, moreover, lectured about it at Britain's Cambridge University (TIME...
...same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first but are now responsive...
Hidden Teammates. The sound of the coyote's cry at night is the common denominator of Southwest experience. It is one of the things that adults remember of a ranch house childhood; when heard again in age it summons up the whole complex of dry weather, sun-baked corrals, rock ranch houses, Mexicans, road runners, cattle, rattlesnakes, water tanks, windmills and lonely country. Says Dobie: it is an integral part of the life of the Southwest, which a New Mexico cowboy called the "land that seemed to be grieving over something-a kind of sadness, loneliness in a deathly...