Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...height of the two-year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...Sudanese security men had to break up a wrestling match between Algerian and Moroccan delegates over a map of Africa that classified the Western Sahara as a nonindependent country. The Algerians, who support Polisario guerrillas fighting for the area's independence, were penciling in "independent" when the Moroccans chanced along and tried to ink in boundary lines indicating that Western Sahara had been partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania. A brief, fierce struggle ensued...
...Martin became the manager of the Minnesota Twins, guiding them to the Western Division title, but he was soon fired from that job. In 1972 he took Detroit to the playoffs, but he got fired from there, too. He had a reputation for ignoring his owners, for doing what he thought was best for his club. And no one could argue with the results. In 1974 he took a horrible Texas Rangers club from nowhere to second place in the A.L. West; finally, in 1975, he got what he had wanted all along, to be manager of the Yankees. Then...
...plan now goes to the U.N. Security Council for formal approval, probably late next week. Though the Western powers would have preferred immediate action to forestall an incident that could upset the fragile agreement, it was decided to wait until after the Organization of African Unity summit this week, when the continent's leaders are expected to give it their blessing...
...test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good find was made. In the North Sea, it took 50 false starts, and in oil-rich Western Canada the number reached...