Word: southwester
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before the banks, plain folk waited for hours. For those caught without new currency, the government doled out emergency rice rations. Communist bandits in South Korea, who need money for their own purposes, were hard hit-they did not dare to appear at exchange windows. At Kobu in the southwest, 15 of them attacked a government finance office, killing a guard and a bystander, and made off with $6,000 worth of the new hwan. Some of Rhee's political enemies noted bitterly that the new system will make it difficult for opposition parties to convert their funds...
...most part, archaeologists are scholars who work among ruins and study in musty museums, surrounded by books and bones. But in the Southwest, almost everybody is an archaeologist: Girl Scouts, G.I.s, Indians and postmen all have the digging fever. Cowhands hunting for straying cattle hunt for dinosaur bones. Gatherers of pine nuts look in the debris of anthills for the tiny turquoise beads of vanished early Americans...
...steers brought 34?. The basic reason for the cattle-price decline is that beef animals are in long supply; by Agriculture Department estimates, the nation's cattle population has grown some 20% in the past two years, to 93 million head. On top of that, droughts in the Southwest forced cattlemen to move their stock to feed lots early. Result: an above-normal flow from crowded feed lots to the stockpens of Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City, and a sharp decline in prices. This in turn touched off some scare selling...
Preaching the word in North Korea, Pang Wha II, Presbyterian minister, felt the Communist wrath for the first time in 1945. World War II was barely ended when the Reds drove him from his little parish in Sinuiji at the Yalu. He moved southwest of Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...
Rancher Joe Evans, a Baptist layman who has organized some of the Southwest's most successful camp meetings (TIME, July 30, 1951), was especially shocked. Camp meetings, said he, represent "real, undented religion." He added: "If the Episcopal Church endorses the things Wright said in his address to the lawyers, I think they are fundamentally unsound in their belief and doctrine...