Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been won. Undaunted, he set out to become the chronicler of the cavalryman in action, and Cody obligingly let him use the cowboys and Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore Roosevelt, that he gave Schreyvogel a presidential permit to visit any Army post or Indian reservation...
...Western equine encephalitis (or "WEE") was so named when it appeared that its chief victims were horses. But among 297 cases of human viral encephalitis in 1965, the U.S. Communicable Disease Center attributed no fewer than 172 to WEE, with four deaths. The outbreak reached epidemic proportions in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and Wyoming...
...steel magnates who had not yet decided what to do. This resulted in a certain amount of confusion. One Pennsylvania-based steel company chief executive was away from home as late as 1:15 a.m. When the phone rang, his teen-aged daughter answered, was startled to hear a Western Union operator inform her, she thought, that she was being invited to Washington to discuss the matter of possible price increases in the steel industry...
...WESTERN EUROPE...
...Western Europe's steel industry is sick. With a few exceptions, European steel plants are too old, too small and too far from seaports to compete in the world market. All this requires drastic action, which is now being taken in several countries...