Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During Business Hours." What Israel wanted most was the Negeb, and it got that. The Arabs, however, got a 20-mile strip of coast around Gaza, and Israel agreed to a semi-demilitarization (only small defensive forces, no airplanes) of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Egypt was allowed to withdraw from the famed Fa-luja pocket, and last week her half-starved troops, who had been marooned in the pocket for 20 weeks, began a joyful exodus, heads held high...
Below the border in Eire, Prime Minister John A. Costello took up his coreligionists' cause with more will than wit. High-handed Costello played straight into Sir Basil's hands by calling together a committee which ordered collection boxes set up in front of every church, Catholic or Protestant, in Eire. The money was to be sent up North to help the Republicans...
...enemies," he slyly demanded, "withdraw your ambassador and declare war." At 8 p.m., the Haitian government answered "that loathsome beast" by announcing that it had already recalled its ambassador. But Roland was hardly satisfied. The following afternoon he sneeringly challenged the Haitians: "I give you a rendezvous at the border, gentlemen, which I know you will not dare to keep, cowards that...
Youngdahl's victory was not quite so epochal as it would have been farther down the Mississippi. Ever since the Civil War, when pitched street battles ended with St. Louis in Northern control, the city has lived with a border city's uneasy conscience on racial issues. In recent years the St. Louis color line has been breached repeatedly by educators...
...much as the ambitious total was the content of the projected films. The studio which, before Schary, had rarely put into its pictures anything more controversial than Lassie and Ma Hardy's apple pies, was now courting social themes: Intruder in the Dust (about the Negro problem); Border Incident (about Mexican laborers who enter the U.S. illegally); an antitotalitarian story; a script about an American Indian (Robert Taylor) trying to adapt himself to modern society...