Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia's western, southwestern and northern counties, where Negro population runs less than 10% and integration can be carried out without much trouble, many citizens had doubts. The strongest opposition came from Arlington and Fairfax, both thickly populated bedroom communities for Washington...
Mellowing (49) Singer Josephine Baker, onetime (circa 1927) light-brown toast of Paris when she danced without wraps at the Folies-Bergère, was far past her spicy past. At her 460-acre estate near Périgord in southwestern France, Expatriate Baker was busily tending the fabrication of a startling memorial to herself...
Back in 1946, young Joe Cooper and his" father-in-law, Fletcher Bronson, of Monticello, Utah, paid $1,000 for 500 acres of copper-mining property in southwestern Utah. They soon regretted the investment: the copper ore was so heavily contaminated with uranium that nobody wanted to process it. Then the atomic age got into swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine...
...southwestern Indiana, public-health officials were fighting to contain a month-old epidemic of encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain caused by a virus) that has already killed ten persons and hospitalized about 40. One theory is that the infection was transmitted to humans from birds or horses that had been infected by disease-carrying mosquitoes...
Instead of having lost its first two games, as a year ago, Cornell enters its first league game with a 1-1 record; the difference, however, stems not from improved play, but from the calibre of the opposition. While last year the Big Red bowed to Rice, a Southwestern Conference powerhouse, this year it just managed to ease by weak Lehigh, 14-7. Both seasons it lost to Colgate...