Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice-President Cooke explained that ABC gets good co-operation anywhere they go, adding that the Southeast and Southwest are especially co-operative...
...supreme challenge to gluttons is posed by the $10 Fiesta dinner offered by the Club El Bianco on Chicago's Southwest Side. The three-to four-hour Super Bowl of Gluttony begins with appetizers (bean salad, salami and pepperoni) and a vast antipasto tray, continues with soup, tossed salad, stuffed peppers, ribs, eggplant parmigiana, veal scallopini, chicken cacciatore and piles of pasta. Dessert includes pastries, fruit and cookies, followed by a nut cart. If anyone complains that he is still hungry, Manager Peter Bianco Jr. has a secret weapon that few could stomach: a huge submarine sandwich topped...
Eagles has managed to fuse the country and the folk rock into a sound from the southwest. I can't fault derivation; most of my favorite rock bands are derivative--the whole concept of rock music is, ultimately, derivative. But Eagles's music is derivative of a genre that has gone out of style. I loved the Springfield five years ago, but, music being what it is, they wouldn't do me much good...
...recognizes the need to "extend the net" to include new kinds of fellows in the program. Last spring he took a trip to the Southwest where he recruited two women running for Congress and tried fruitlessly to get a Chicano fellow. In another effort to involve a larger constituency in its programs, the Institute last spring sponsored the Black Caucus and facilitated the Chicano-Boricua conference...
Magic. A nomadic tribe of warriors, the Navajos called themselves the Dineh ("People of the Earth"). In the middle of the 16th century, they migrated from what is now northwestern Canada to the American Southwest. There they first encountered horses and sheep-both brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors. While the Navajo men hunted and raided, the women learned weaving from the tribe's more peaceful neighbors-and frequent victims-the Pueblos. At first they copied Pueblo styles, but they soon developed their own. As early as 1795, Governor Fernando Chacón observed that "they work...