Word: westwards
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...Many readers saw striking resemblances in Ruven Afanador's stark cover photograph of Johnny Cash. "That magnificent face had the appearance of one of America's Founding Fathers or a pioneer who pushed westward over the Appalachian Mountains," wrote a Floridian. Asked a woman from New Jersey: "Was that a picture of Cash or of another musical icon, Ludwig van Beethoven?" And a Rhode Islander offered her thanks "for the wonderful cover portrait of Cash. It is as beautiful as a Rembrandt etching and as welcome as a snapshot from a friend...
...they could scarcely explain. They liked Ike because, when they saw him and heard him talk, he made them proud of themselves and all the half-forgotten best that was in them and in the nation. It was a crashing conquest for the man who flew westward out of Washington last week, a known soldier but an unknown candidate. --TIME, June...
...also reflects the fact that West Nile has been moving inexorably westward since it arrived in the Northeast in 1999. Diseases tend to expand their range until something stops them, and because this one is transmitted mostly by mosquitoes, which live in every state, there's not much stopping it. (It can also be transmitted by blood transfusion, but on July 1, the Food and Drug Administration authorized two experimental tests now being used on the nation's blood supply...
...original visitors found when they entered the valley in December 1849 looking for a shortcut to California's gold. Bound in by mountains and running out of supplies, most of the would-be miners and their families hunkered down for the winter, while a two-man scouting party forged westward for help. Returning in late January, the scouts found that one man had died. The rest of the group survived by burning their wagons and slaughtering the oxen. The valley got its name, according to legend, when one woman looked back as the party was leaving and said, "Goodbye, Death...
...life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where I now live, and together we sailed westward from Java, across the Indian Ocean and through the Arabian Sea to Bombay...