Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lattre's target was Communist stronghold Choben, lying in a gap between rugged, razorback mountain ranges 30 miles southwest of Hanoi, through which runs Route Coloniale No. 21. Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...
...teach Latin and Greek at the University of Nevada. The classics were all right in their way, but the young professor felt the need of something more robust. One winter, on a dare, he set out to climb the 10,800-ft. peak of Mt. Rose, 19 miles southwest of Reno. He returned from the mission safe & sound, but fascinated by the savagery of the storms and by the "complete purity of the world of snow...
...Southern Methodist University's athletic department, which consistently makes money from football tickets, last week turned over $100,000 to the S.M.U. Press, which consistently loses money on its scholarly and regional books and the quarterly Southwest Review. And, said Athletic Director Matty Bell, "we aren't going to tell you how to run your business, as some of these guys that support foot-sail...
...president of Federated Department Stores, Fred Lazarus Jr. keeps as sharp an eye on population changes as the census bureau. "The U.S.," he likes to say, "is currently undergoing a highly significant population movement." -Nowhere is the movement greater than in the West and Southwest, where some cities have grown 80% in the last ten years compared to a 15% overall U.S. growth. This week, Fred Lazarus thought it time to cash in on the "highly significant movement." He announced that Federated, the third biggest department-store chain in the U.S., will invest $20 million in a new link...
...with an uncle) and met his first traveler's disappointment. "The Rocky Mountains," he noted with disillusionment, "were made mostly of dirt." From his uncle he learned a modification of Quakerism: "Turn your other cheek once, but if he smites it, then punch him!" From Cornishmen in the Southwest goldfields he learned fine points that had been neglected at Stanford engineering school. (To sleep warm in a wet mine, curl up in a steel wheelbarrow heated by several candles underneath.) At 23, he was helping a British mining firm claw gold out of western Australia...