Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long run, probably nothing of the Asian mainland could be held against Communism were it not for the wide arc of island groups swinging from Japan down to Australia, which offers more or less solid bases for U.S. power. The arc's northern anchor and firmest U.S. base is Japan; to it some famous real estate (Okinawa, Guam, etc.), provides secure stepping stones across the Pacific. Far more precarious are the chain's three other links...
...anyone questioned the right of a nation under attack to strike at its enemies' home base. One of the few historical situations similar to that facing the U.N. had developed during the U.S. Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln believed that some of his generals shared a widespread Northern belief that Union armies should confine themselves to defending Northern territory. Lincoln was dismayed first by the delaying tactics of General George McClellan, later by the sluggishness of General George Meade who allowed Lee's defeated Confederate army to slip safely across the Potomac River after Gettysburg. Said Lincoln...
...Interior, gripped the white steering wheel and stepped on the gas. His jet-black car shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...
...such in news stories? Many newspapers follow the New York Times's practice, use the racial tag "only when there is a legitimate purpose to be served" or it is "a matter of pride to all of us," i.e., when a Negro is honored. But many other Northern newspapers, and almost all Southern dailies, label Negroes as such whenever they appear in the news. Last week, the Chicago Tribune was smack up against the problem. It is the only daily paper in Chicago that still labels Negroes in almost all news stories, and Chicago's potent, civic-minded...
...Schuyler County proved to be about 5,400 years old. Most previous estimates had given the Indians only 2,000 years in New York State, but Dr. Ritchie's finding seemed to indicate that rather primitive redmen lived there in 3450 B.C., when the neolithic inhabitants, of northern Europe were not much more advanced...