Word: northward
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...supply of oil from Khuzistan to Iran's heartland by severing pipelines and inflicting heavy damage on the huge refinery at Abadan, which will take years to rebuild. As part of this strategy, the Iraqis have repeatedly shelled Dezful, nexus for most of the oil pipelines running northward from Khuzistan. The Tehran government has already been forced to ration gasoline and heating oil, and reserves of jet fuel are dwindling...
...partisans, who ultimately numbered 300,000, had a broader national appeal than the chauvinistically Serbian Četniks, and they were far more active in launching guerrilla attacks against German divisions (up to 26 at one point) tied down in occupying Yugoslavia. As the Nazi troops retreated northward in 1944, Tito moved to consolidate his power. In the process, he violated an apparent promise to Winston Churchill. (Tito had told Britain's Prime Minister in 1944, "That is our basic principle: democracy and freedom of the individual.") Tito ruthlessly intimidated, imprisoned and even murdered his opponents; when general elections were...
...narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps." The eerie, lonely beauty of perpetual dusk is condensed in an impression: "Northward above the mountain shoulder she saw one bright star shine clear, gone the next instant, lost, like the reflection in a raindrop or the glitter of mica in sand...
...Washington Star relied on entirely different evidence. It produced aerial photos, dated May and November 1969, of the sandbar opening through which ocean tides swept northward into Katama Bay, through the channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick and out into the sound. According to the pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current...
...ocean engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was hired by Kennedy's staff to study the currents, concluded that the opening was "more than twelve feet deep." The depth of the opening is important because only a large volume of water pouring through it could produce the northward current that Kennedy described at the inquest...