Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scouting for German ships using Norway's coastal sea lanes. British warships had entered Norwegian water to sink German ships. One of them fired a shot across a German's bow and the shell landed ashore, albeit unexploded, near the Varhaug railway station on Norway's southwestern tip. Norwegians muttered that if British intrusions did not stop, Norway might stop leasing much-needed tankers and freighters to Great Britain...
Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker came from Yoakum, Tex. The son of a Methodist minister, he studied at minuscule Southwestern University, spent a few months in the army as a telegraph operator on the Mexican border, went north in 1919 to study medicine at Columbia. But all he could afford was a course in journalism, so he took that...
About an hour after sunset one will be able to see five planets, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury, in the southwestern sky. It may be hard, however, to distinguish between the smaller planets and the nearby stars...
...November began the Japanese drive which the Chinese had been fearfully expecting for a full year-a thrust at the southwestern communications system, over which almost 90% of China's war supplies had been moving. This campaign was a sharp turning point...