Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riches. In many places today, however, the two regions have the shabby look of an unsuccessful middle age. One reason: the Federal Government, through its spending and tax policies, has been persistently draining wealth from the areas and transferring it to the once neglected but now prospering South and Southwest...
...languages of tribes in the Southwest and Northeast are closely related to Iberic, a Moorish Arabic language, Libyan, Celtic, Basque, and other languages from that area, Fell said...
Fell says the American Indian civilization in the Southwest was overtaken between A.D. 1100 and 1200 by the "Ab" people. The word "Ab" means "Apache" in modern Pima, one of the tribes which shared the Southwestern culture called Hohokam and spoke in the near-universal tongue of North American at that time--Iberic, Fell said...
Johnny Mercer wrote and Judy Garland belted out those lyrics in 1946. Now, many of the songs written about railroads are nostalgic goodbyes, but the whistles are still blowing on the Santa Fe. The railroad, which operates 13,000 miles of track from Chicago through the Southwest to California, is big, modern and-a rarity these days-profitable...
Ghosts and Gods. More than 100 adventure tour packagers are now operating in the U.S., competing for a clientele that numbers in the hundreds of thousands. They offer mountain-climbing tours of the Himalayas, canoe expeditions down the Amazon, hang-gliding excursions in the U.S. Southwest, ghost-hunting trips through haunted English castles, and archeological tours from the Dead Sea to Easter Island...