Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room Hawkings home (called "The Limit," because it is the last house on Shanghai's southwestern boundary) at once became a front-line position. Nationalist soldiers pulled down fences all around, dug trenches through neighboring gardens, put neighboring houses to the torch. When one group of soldiers started to chop down Mrs. Hawkings' trees, she told them: "We've lived in this house for 27 years and brought up five daughters here, and we can't have this sort of thing going on." The soldiers, overwhelmed by her bearing and her perfect Chinese, obediently put away...
Whenever she heard that a big corporation (e.g., Southwestern Bell Telephone or Monsanto Chemical) was due for a paint job, she went to the head man, but she made friends with the maintenance men, too. On a tip, she hustled to the McDonnell Aircraft plant and told President James McDonnell: "Jim, if you're going to paint, I think we can do the job better than anyone else." She did, concocting special shades christened "McDonnell maroon" and "banshee blue" (after the company's fighter plane...
...member of the Peabody Museum staff since 1930 and Director since last year, Professor Brew has directed archaeological expeditions in the United States and Canada. His work is now concentrated on excavations in the central regions of southwestern United States, where the archaeologist's field is "extremely fertile," since the area is so remote that it is untouched by previous expeditions. The region, near Pietown, New Mexico, contains remains of civilizations which were predecessors of the Pueblos, according to Professor Brew...
Last week, while the diggers assembled their findings, another expedition was hunting for moas. Dr. Geoffrey B. Orbell, who had proved that the supposedly extinct takahe, a member of the rail family, was flourishing in southwestern South Island (TIME, Dec. 20), was out for bigger game. Though the supersized moas are dead & gone, Dr. Orbell has hopes that the little (turkey-sized) Anomalopteryx moa has not yet kicked its last...
...little over half way through this Universal Production, James Stewart and Eddie Albert crash their cargo plane in a southwestern wilderness. While Joan Fontaine consoles a distraught monkey in one end of the plane and an escaped embezzler lies petrified in the other, Albert informs Stewart, "You don't look very happy." Stewart and the Astor audience, had nothing to be happy about at that point or at any other in the movie...