Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew up in the Southwest where squash racquets are forsaken for phalanges and metacarpals (that's fingers and hands). Handball is played in the schools and sweaty YMCAs of towns with names such as Albuquerque, Amarillo and El Paso...
Holding Fuel. Gas producers, based mainly in the South and Southwest, have indeed been holding back fuel that could be fed into interstate pipelines for shipment to the East Coast and the Midwest, because the Federal Power Commission will let them charge no more than $1.44 per 1,000 cu. ft. for it. Instead, they have been selling the gas in the states where it is produced, mainly Texas and Louisiana, at uncontrolled prices of around $2. Indications are that the amounts of gas thus diverted are vast. Interstate pipelines took 67% of all new gas produced...
...then he added that he actually was not familiar with the literature. He said he thought it was probably the Chinese who actually had settled there, and he went on to speculate about the presence in South America of Libyans and Tartessians (a people from a city in southwest Spain...
According to Fell the Pima Indians of the Southwest speak a Semitic tongue acquired from Iberian Punic colonists who came 2500 years ago, and the Zunis of Arizona speak a language derived directly from Libyan, with a vocabulary composed of elements from Coptic, Middle Egyptian, and Nubian...
...matter of course, he was shunted into the steward's department. Recounts Haley: ''I was on an ammunition ship in the southwest Pacific, and the big problem was boredom and loneliness. I had never thought of being a writer, but I wrote lots and lots of letters. And crew members began to come to me for help in writing love letters. I got pretty good at this, and before long it kinda got to be I didn't have to cook any more. I just wrote love letters." While copying passages from a book (he cannot remember which...