Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their Lives. Under the ceaseless pounding of last week's wind-whipped rains, dams burst, quiet rivers turned into leaping furies and swept beyond their banks, the melting snows of the Sierra and other western ranges poured relentlessly into the valleys. One place alone - Blue Canyon in the High Sierra -got a torrential 24.67 in. of rain in five days. Whole villages disappeared, homes and bridges toppled, and the streets of cities and towns became ca nals as thousands upon thousands of refugees, aided by disaster rescue crews, ran for their lives...
...visit relatives living in the Eastern zone, now accessible during four holiday seasons each year under the pass agreements negotiated last September. Young and old lugged huge baskets filled with fruits, candies, coffee, tea, sugar and liquors-all in short, or ersatz, supply in Communist East Germany. On the Western side accumulated intended gifts that the surly Vopo guards would not allow through: books, records, TV equipment, film, photographs of any kind-even color slides of family outings...
Limited Time. Once Britain abolishes the death penalty, only two countries in Western Europe-France and Spain-will still retain capital punishment. None of the other abolition countries have faced a sharp rise in the incidence of murder, which suggests to the abolitionists that the death penalty never acted as a notable deterrent. Even so, Tory Henry Brooke urged that the bill, if it became an act, should be brought before both Houses of Parliament again in five years' time, adding, "I believe that bold experiment subject to a time limit is the right course to take." When...
...passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1963, some quarter of a million more than on the second-place New York-Boston run, and the 1964 total will exceed 2,000,000. The route is so lucrative that four carriers-United, Western, TWA and Pacific Southwest-are cutting fares to win passengers and spending millions on promotion and new equipment...
...making for tyrannies of the Soviet state, such as the confiscation of all private radio receivers or the summary street-corner execution of suspected civilian traitors. The most egregious example is his treatment of the controversy over the tragic Warsaw uprising in the summer of 1944. The consensus of Western historians holds that Stalin apparently held back the capture of that city until the anti-Communist Polish underground was destroyed by the Germans. After a seesawing summary of the argument, but without substantial new evidence, Werth chooses to agree for the most part with the official Soviet self-exoneration...