Word: westernmost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liebling had this theory that Lousiana was the westernmost Mediterranean principality, what with its Byzantine politics, and all. If that's true, then Florida is perhaps the northernmost Caribbean principality--ruled by Holiday Inn instead of United Fruit. Subject to coups and missile shots and crazed Cubanos and Ed Gurney and Ed Gurney's ghost, where the great Northeast goes to die of the pulmonary diseases contracted in 40 years of living in the great Northeast, hospitable only to snakes and gators, the Miami Dolphins and Richard Petty, ah Florida--my Florida, home of Danny...
...variety of that domain is nearly infinite. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the westernmost, boasts a steaming crater, a heat-blasted desert and flows of black lava that lead down to the warm Pacific off the island of Hawaii. Acadia National Park is as green as Hawaii Volcanoes is barren. Cool, thickly forested hills march down to the Atlantic off the coast of Maine, where the water is icy enough to turn the hardiest of swimmers as blue as the summer sky in a matter of minutes...
Born in the Saar, Germany's westernmost province, he was delivering party newspapers for his coal-miner father by the time he was eight. At 14, he was a member of the Young Communist League; four years later he took his first trip to Moscow to attend the Communist Youth International School. In 1933, after Hitler outlawed Germany's Communist Party, he became an underground organizer, under the name Herbert Jung. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to ten years in prison; he spent much of it in solitary confinement...
...Askew, 42, had quietly but forcefully built a solid strategic base during his twelve years in the state legislature. Though he represented the state's westernmost, ultraconservative district, he often sided on key issues with legislators from populous Southern Florida. While his district had a greater voice in the wildly malapportioned legislature than its population warranted, Askew was one of the leaders for reapportionment. He gained a reputation for sincerity and fair play; that, coupled with his promise of tough tax, welfare and prison reform measures, helped him through the primaries and then easily to whip incumbent Republican Governor Claude...