Word: westerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Treadup's final stage begins when he decides to stay with his villagers even in the gathering darkness of the Sino-Japanese War. Treadup's spiritual contraction', begun when he returned from the Wester. Front, is continued in an increasing hopelessness he feels (and Hersey intends us to understand that all Westerners should have felt this) in the face of China's manifold ills--invasion, constant famine, disease, civil war and corruption...
...hockey 7, Wester Ontario...
Nuclear war strategy has received much attention as of late because of contradictory remarks made by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger over whether NATO has plans to fire a nuclear warning shot if the Soviet Union were to overrun Wester Europe. A reporter asked Reagan whether there should be a nuclear warning shot...
Hard by the harbor's edge in the venerable Massachusetts fishing port of Gloucester stands the bronze statue of a fisherman, dressed in slicker and sou'wester hat and clutching a schooner's wheel. He is gazing resolutely seaward, as if on the lookout for one of the gales that have claimed thousands of local sailors since the town was settled in 1623. But today a storm of quite a different kind is swirling through Gloucester. This one pits the townspeople against the Moonies, the disciples of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church has been...
...Scoop where Correspondent William Boot outfits himself for assignment in barbarous Ishmaelia: his kit included a "rather overfurnished tent, three months' rations, a collapsible canoe, a jointed flagstaff and Union Jack, a hand pump and sterilizing plant, an astrolabe, six suits of tropical linen and a sou'wester, a camp operating table and set of surgical instruments, a portable humidor, guaranteed to preserve cigars in condition in the Red Sea, and a Christmas hamper complete with Santa Claus costume and a tripod mistletoe stand, and a cane for whacking snakes...