Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
When a team of U.S. and Mexican inspectors, vaccinating Mexican cattle against aftosa (foot & mouth disease), set out for the mountain country northwest of Mexico City, it was warned of possible trouble. A scout reported that villagers and farmers in the area were being told by the deeply Catholic, anti-government Sinarquistas: "He who cooperates with the anti-aftosa commission is a traitor. Do not cooperate. The anti-aftosa is a. Russian Communist plot to destroy your cattle...
...this point the Japanese "intervention" in China drew Chiang's energies elsewhere. Mao and Chu, leading a Red army of 80,000 men, were able to break through the Nationalist encirclement and flee to the northwest. Thus began what the Chinese Communists consider their great epic-the Long March...
Pleading that he had not had enough time to prepare a proper case, Reimann's defense counsel asked for a postponement. The British magistrate granted it with alacrity. The only recording of Reimann's remarks at the Rheinhalle rally-a wire recording made by Northwest German Radio-had been "erased" (demagnetized) to make room for something else. The non-Communist German reporters who had heard his harangue were reluctant to testify...
...almost forgotten U.S. landscapist named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they looked a little like Arcadia seen through a dusty brass telescope...