Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters to go to the polls. These old-fashioned precinct labors have nothing to do with the issues, but on them may hang the continuance of an old political dynasty or the survival of the Congressman who calls himself the "ambassador from the Great Society to the people of southwestern Ohio...
...left. Battling to save the market they have long dominated, coalmen have turned to unit trains, automated mining equipment, and mine-mouth generating plants transmitting power across huge distances via super-high-voltage lines. Nuclear plants remain too costly for small utility companies or sparsely populated regions. In such Southwestern states as Texas, utility men insist that they will rely on cheap natural gas for years. With the total U.S. demand for electricity doubling every decade, even General Electric figures that coal consumption in U.S. power plants will more than double between...
...certain special situations, middle school buildings will have to be constructed. There is no existing high school or other secondary facility in the entire southwestern section of Pittsburgh. Recently this has been one of the most rapidly growing areas of the city, and because it has a substantial portion of Pittsburgh's open land, such growth is likely to continue. The total enrollments to be served by the attendance district proposed for this area and a section of the Hill are very large. This single large attendance area could be further divided into two districts served by separate middle schools...
...millions who came to California to seek opportunity and room to roam. He was born in Lincoln, Neb., in 1909, the son of a poor farmer and an Irish-born mother, arrived in Los Angeles after high school with $80 in his pocket. He enrolled in Southwestern University Law School, working first as a part-time clothing salesman, next as a movie projectionist, but found that his real flair was for speechifying: "I would rather give a speech than
...misty backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...