Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, coming down the Sontay valley to the west were more Communists, this time threatening Hanoi. Again De Lattre broke up their concentrations with his bombers. But the next day, on an 18-mile front in the mountains southwest of Dongtrieu, the Communists launched their heaviest attack. To the sound of bugle calls, Communist infantrymen loaded with suicide equipment threw themselves, screaming, on the French lines. After two days' steady fighting, the French threw the Communists back with a loss of 500 dead, 1,500 wounded. In the recaptured territory the French found another French officer tortured to death...
Contacted in Southwest Harbor, Maine, by "American Students for Raising the Monitor," he estimated the cost of the operation at $250,000. Captain Ellsberg, the man who raised the Squalus, said that the Monitor could be raised by using external lifting pontoons, a method he pioneered...
...done in foreign experiments, Argentine technicians worked on the basis of thermonuclear reactions, which are identical with those whereby the sun releases atomic energy." The successful experiment had been conducted at the government atomic plant on Huemul Island, in the Andean lake of Nahuel Huapi, some 900 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. It required neither uranium nor plutonium. "With the seriousness and veracity which is my custom," Perón assured his people that his cut-rate atomic energy would be used "solely for power plants, smelters and other industrial establishments...
Borrowing & Inventing. Hundreds of Americanisms, Mathews found, grew out of other languages. English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose. Alaskan settlers corrupted a powerful drink of the Hutsnuwu Indians into hooch, changed hiu muckamuck, the Chinook words meaning "plenty to eat," into a high-muck-a-muck, a "person of importance." From the German gunsmiths of Pennsylvania came rifle, probably out of riffel, the word for groove. The Dutch produced koekje (cookies); and their word for dung-pappekak-eventually turned into poppycock...
...Smith's job while Smith was serving as a deputy to W. Stuart Symington on the National Security Resources Board. Last week, when Smith finished his Government stint and came home, Bill Long decided to take a rest on his 11,000-acre Rough Creek Ranch, 90 miles southwest of Dallas, where he plays polo with local ranchers and businessmen. "The way to live to an old age," says he, "is to spend a lot of time on a horse. You can't take a horse into an office, a pool hall or a country club...