Word: southwestward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monsoon rains began last spring, the Chinese had pushed a gravel-topped all-weather road 55 miles south as far as Muong Sai, a town on an important Mekong River tributary, then northeast toward North Viet Nam. Last September, as the rains ended, the coolies moved on-this time southwestward through the Beng Valley toward the Mekong River and the border of Thailand...
...basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls of the Rockies and the Sierra, the warm, dry air heads southwestward toward the group of lower mountain ranges that stand between it and a low-pressure trough hovering over Southern California...