Word: northwest
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...most poignant single tragedy befell the small (pop. about 1,200) community of East Coldenham, N.Y., 40 miles northwest of New York City. More than 120 children were eating lunch in the two-story cafeteria of an elementary school when a blast of wind estimated at 100 m.p.h. struck the yellow-brick-and-glass building. A massive section of the south wall crashed into the children in a hail of shattered glass, concrete and falling bricks. Some pupils who had been standing to watch the storm were tossed about like rag dolls. "I heard a whistling sound," said Mike Miller...
What does Seattle want? In 1977 Seattle became the first major city to adopt busing to integrate its schools without being forced to do so by a court. On Nov. 7 it became the first city in the Northwest to elect a black mayor: Democratic Councilman Norm Rice, who campaigned strongly against an antibusing referendum proposal called Save Our Schools. Yet after absentee ballots were counted last week, it turned out that the voters had also approved the nonbinding S.O.S. measure by 1,135 votes...
...Poles came to Chicago in three large waves. Between 1890 and 1930, more than 350,000 Polish peasants poured into the city to labor in the steel mills and meat-packing plants. Their descendants now live in the suburbs or in neat bungalows on Chicago's northwest and southwest sides. As Stalin's Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe after World War II, another flood of immigrants arrived, many of them soldiers who had fought with the Allied forces...
...Unhappily denied such attentions, The People is a rough draft of the novel it might have become. The year is 1870, and Yozip Bloom, a Russian immigrant and itinerant Jewish peddler, roams the Pacific Northwest. He is kidnaped by an Indian tribe that calls itself the People. For reasons not entirely clear, Yozip has been singled out as the spokesman, Yiddish-inflected English and all, who will defend the rights of the People against the perfidious, treaty- breaking whites...
...twelve other young families on their block in Issaquah are also from out of state. For the Cutlips are part of a "northward-ho!" movement of new settlers, mainly from California, who have been streaming by the tens of thousands toward the inviting frontier of the Pacific Northwest. The influx into dynamic areas like Seattle and, to a lesser extent, Portland, Ore., is urbanizing a once rural hinterland and intensifying the Northwest's already bitter debate over local growth...