Word: west
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smiled, "it's in West Africa...
...BERLIN-Two armed East German defectors forced a Polish airliner to land in West Berlin yesterday. The two men were granted asylum...
According to an official spokesman, none of the other 63 passengers and nine crewmen asked to remain in the west. The plane proceeded to East Berlin, its next scheduled stop on the way to Brussels, Belgium, its final destination...
...join the Harvard coterie until 1954. He was born with a flat twang accent in 1928 in Fort Worth and worked through an M. A. at U. C. L. A. on a Native Son of the Golden West fellowship. With a new doctorate he spent the Korean War as an historian for the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954 he came to Harvard as an instructor and has wandered up the academic hierarchy to full professor...
...historian Prescott tells it, Pizarro drew his sword and "traced a line with it on the sand from East to West. Then, turning towards the South, 'Friends and comrades!' he said, 'on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the South.'" It was an epic moment, one of the many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt...