Word: northward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although it measures 40 by 40½ in., the tempera panel was painted with a miniaturist's exactitude. The firewood outside the window carries a symbolic suggestion of the yule log, which European rustics burn as a magical sacrifice to start the failing sun northward. The low winter sun gleams on the logs, and sidles through the glass into the bare kitchen...
...tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER -TROISDORF WELCOMES YOU-GERMANY TRUSTS EISENHOWER. Mixed among them were placards pleading for help in regaining Germany's lost...
Like birds in the spring, polio moves northward over the nation from the South. This year, the fifth since Salk vaccine was introduced, it began in Florida and southern Texas, hit hardest at Mexicans. Last week it struck the Middle West, with concentrated epidemics among slum-dwelling Negroes in Des Moines and Kansas City. At week's end the U.S. Public Health Service reported that thus far in 1959 there have been 855 polio cases (574 paralytic) as against 588 (297 paralytic) in the same period last year...
...college of high quality which emphasizes the development of the individual. It shares the cultural advantages of New York, Boston and Montreal. Its hill is moderately high. From it, on a clear day, you can just see, beyond the toilet paper factory, the historic Walloomsac River flowing northward away from Williamstown, where there is a small, rural, private, experimental college* of high quality for well-rounded...
Into Harrisburg, Pa. one evening last week fluttered a particular swallow known among political ornithologists as Lyndon Baines Johnson. Ostensibly, the Senate majority leader had flown to Pennsylvania's capital for a victory dinner saluting the new Democratic Governor, David Leo Lawrence. But the northward migration served a serious second purpose. Lyndon Johnson has been banded as a possible compromise 1960 presidential nominee. Even as he protests, he recognizes the danger of too much Southern identification; smoothly, in recent months, Texan Lyndon has changed to Western plumage.* Now, with a speech in Pennsylvania and two more at week...