Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...located, there was considerable confusion during the first week. Hamilton Jordan, Carter's chief aide, had no trouble passing through the northwest gate, but guards stopped Press Secretary Powell one morning because he did not have his pass and was not recognized. Powell had better luck at the southwest gate, where a friendly guard piped, "Good morning, Mr. Powell...
...factors of -71° in Minneapolis and -45° in snow-buried Buffalo. Interstate highways from Wisconsin south to St. Louis were blocked. As crews worked desperately to clear passageways, the 30-day forecast brought no hope. The prediction was for more snow, extending even into the South and Southwest, and lower-than-normal temperatures throughout most of the eastern two-thirds of the nation...
...mahogany office chair with a black vinyl seat and back. There, in an old tannery known as the Slaughterhouse in the southwest corner of the Utah State Prison, sat Gary Mark Gilmore, 36, freshly shaven and wearing a black T shirt, crumpled white trousers and red, white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 deer rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
...overtake Puerto Rico as it has other regions of the United States. Completely integrated with the United States, Puerto Rico's culture would dissolve like a drop of Tabasco in a vat of mashed potatoes. Its language, however, would remain a problem. Back when the United States took the Southwest territories from Mexico, they had no qualms and little difficulty in making everyone speak English. But now the country no longer has the moral conviction to demand the assimilation of immigrants. Bilingual education, and for well-organized minorities, bilingual social services, have been growing quietly since the '60s. The trend...
Meanwhile, out in the Southwest, another severe storm was brewing, and local weathermen, saying that it looked like this was the winter that would pull out all the stops, forecast even more snow for Sunday night and Monday...