Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...northerly and direct of the internationally recognized courses to Tokyo and Seoul. It would take him off the Soviet Union's Kamchatka Peninsula, about 30 miles from the Kuril Islands, which are claimed and occupied by the Soviets, then over the main Japanese island of Honshu, and finally westward to Seoul...
...Reagan offered a less drastic trade: a scaled-down NATO deployment for a scaled-back SS-20 force. But the U.S. is still insisting that SS-20s in the Far East, aimed at Japan and China, be treated as part of the Euromissile deal, since they could be moved westward in a crisis. As part of a final offer before the new American missiles arrive in December, the U.S. might improve the plausibility of its negotiating position and thus minimize the backlash against deployment in Germany by seeking reductions only in SS-20s targeted on Europe and settling...
...Gavotte (which is but the first of a myriad of musical jokes) begins a journey across America in search of the perfect musical phrase. Accompanied by his balding wife and their child Zimmerman, Blue and his family participate in a ribald series of escapades as they make their way westward towards California--for where else could the perfect phrase be found? Each place they travel through and everyone they meet cleverly parodies the familiar stock and trade characters from modern literature or American culture. There is the requisite crass army officer in mirrored glasses, the lecherous academic whose greatest interest...
...crowded sidewalk in Pretoria, a dozen South African jet fighters were skimming low over Maputo, capital of neighboring Mozambique. After loosing a barrage of rocket, cannon and machine-gun fire at private residences and a jam factory in a suburb of the port city, the Impala fighters peeled off westward and headed home...
...losers are the people of southern Wyoming, whose representatives are suing to keep train service there, and the nostalgic, who recently thronged at the gate for one last westward roll. The smell of bacon lay heavy on the morning air, spreading from a car with the name "Silver Banquet" flung back along its flank. "It is truly the last one," said Steve Patterson, a locomotive engineer with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and a man who rides the Zephyr mostly just to eat. "All the other passenger trains anywhere you go in this country all look alike. I call...