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Armed with his rare education, Abubakar returned to the windswept Bauchi Plateau and settled down on the staff of a Boys Middle School; he was a born teacher, and might have spent his life there except for a chance remark by a friend, who said that no northern Nigerian had ever passed the examination for a Senior Teacher's Certificate. Piqued by this reflection on northern intelligence, Abubakar took the exam and, to the astonishment of southern colleagues, passed it with ease. Impressed, London University's Institute of Education granted him a scholarship...
...settled down on Prout's Neck in 1884, and he was to have his home there until his death at 74 in 1910. The place was a lonely, windswept land that Homer inadvertently helped turn into a bustling summer resort. Last week, in a special tribute to Homer on the soth anniversary of his death, the Portland Museum of Art put on an exhibition of a highly personal sort. There were only three of the artist's oils, only eight of his watercolors; but there were plenty of reminders of the man himself. From his nephew...
Antarctica may be a frozen, windswept wasteland, but last week it became the first piece of territory which the U.S. and Russia agreed to make a military and nuclear no man's land...
...Explorer Dwight Eisenhower finally reached the windswept Summit, he saw to his dismay that the snow had been badly trampled, and disappearing down the snowy slope trundled a short, squat figure, the broad backsides, the large roll of fat clearly discernible between the ears. It was the Abdominal Snowman! Thus ended another episode in the series, "Explorer Eisenhower's Gullible Travels...
...again to take the lead. Five times the Americans fought off match point. It was well past 8 p.m. when the final shot gave the British the set, 9-7, the match and the Wightman Cup, a rose-filled gewgaw that had been tethered by a rope on a windswept sideline during the two days of struggle...