Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert, the Christmas war was grinding to a halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
...Princetonians who fall a course no longer have to take an extra one to make up for it, and Princeton deans expect this to make life simpler for the border-line student...
...first confused days, the military facts of the invasion had been wildly exaggerated. Actually, the invading force numbered scarcely 300, including 100 tattered, malaria-ridden Nicaraguans. They had occupied the border village of La Cruz, then sat down to wait for the internal uprising that never came...
Actually, Dinnyes had toyed with the same idea. Even as Premier, Puppet Dinnyes had been unable to get his sister, Etelka Gunde, an exit visa. So Etelka, with her husband and two sons, got across the border through the forests. In Austria she was free to tell about her brother. Rakosi had promised him the ambassadorship at Bern if he would denounce Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary. Dinnyes, envisioning Bern and freedom from Rakosi's secret police, called Mindszenty "the center of the counterrevolutionary forces in Hungary...
...sports shirt, and wore his priest's habit only on formal occasions. Learning that a child who died in St. Monica's might have been benefited by Mexican scorpion serum, which was then barred by customs regulations, Father McLoughlin deliberately smuggled some of the serum across the border...