Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as Nigerian self-government proves workable. The chief obstacle is present ed by the Nigerians themselves. The largest (pop. 32 million) of British colo nies, Nigeria is divided among three mutu ally hostile peoples : the tough Hausa tribesmen of the Moslem north, the town-dwelling Yorubas of the southwest, and the aggressive, hard-driving Ibo farmers of the east. Each region now has its own semi-autonomous government. Britain would like them to federate with a strong central government. The only Nigerians who are keen for this idea, because they are confident they would dominate the federation...
...this time there was no doubt as to what killed him, or how he got his fatal infection. His was the first case of plague in southern California since 1936. But millions of flea-infested rodents constitute an ever-filled reservoir of the disease throughout the West and Southwest. The hopeful word from Lockwood Valley was that with the rodents already dead, the epizootic had burned itself out. Sakacs was a casualty only by rare and unhappy chance...
...rhumb-line distance to Bermuda is 635 miles, but since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675. Finisterre took a starboard tack off Newport with a 163° compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole...
...plans for a second super toll road in Ohio. With "disappointing" revenues on seven-month-old turnpike No. 1, running across state, Wall Street Securities Underwriters Blyth & Co. have told Ohio Turnpike Commission that the "time is not propitious" to finance $385 million road running 301 miles northeast-southwest from Conneaut to Cincinnati...
...traveling "Sport in Art" show in Dallas (TIME, March 12),-he had just run into another rebuff at the hands of Texas patriots: cancellation of a $124,755 commission for three huge sculptured aluminum panels designed for the exterior of Houston's new $16 million Bank of the Southwest. The bank's explanation: the sculpture was "too modern," and somehow seemed inappropriate after the Bank of the Southwest changed its name from the Second National Bank of Houston...