Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, two tank-led enemy columns sliced through South Korean defenses in the northeast, threatened to outflank both Taegu and Pohang. But in the southwest, counterattacking G.I.s of the 25th Division had driven back to their old positions west of Haman and Masan. The big push was checked...
After the snatch, the general (who quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
During the week the South Koreans also made three amphibious landings. Two were on the islands of Tokchok and Yonghung, off the western coast, 35 and 17 miles respectively southwest of Inchon, Seoul's port. Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
...they were not the only ones. Last week, after July's plentiful rainfall, most of the state's cattle ranges were greening out. Farmers and ranchers in northeastern New Mexico gave the credit to a private rainmaking company which they had hired. All over the Southwest, and here & there throughout the rest of the U.S., a rainmaking boom was on. Many of the rainmakers were amateurs. But some were serious and hopeful scientists or hard-headed businessmen...
...neither Langmuir nor Workman is overanxious to publish their latest results. Both feel that too much silver iodide is being sprayed around the Southwest these days. It might be just as well to leave matters as they are for a while before western clouds are overseeded or the chemicals drift to the east and cause too much rain...