Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...Sorry." At the Hyderabad border we were greeted by Hindu peasants who were obviously all for the Indian "invaders." At Naldrug camp, where we breakfasted, soldiers were gathered around a radio listening to a rebroadcast of the Nizam's surrender speech. A soldier translated the gist to me: "He is sorry. He wants to be friends...
Soon afterwards he declared that he would no longer live among these "heathen," and went to Palestine. Ana Pauker provided him with an escort to the border...
...Truman set off on the first leg of his campaign itinerary, Candidate Tom Dewey kept his own plans strictly to himself. The only word from Republican headquarters was the announcement that Running Mate Earl Warren would take off next week for a ten-day tour through twelve Western and border states...
Bridie was the child of a Protestant father and a Catholic serving-girl mother. In border County Fermanagh, that was enough to brand her. When Bridie was orphaned, she was disowned by her father's Protestant family and brought up by her mother's sister, a dour, devout Catholic. Aunt Rose Anne instilled the fear of God in Bridie, a shy, spritelike creature who loved to run wild on the bog, disliked school and was passionately fond of easygoing Uncle James. When Uncle James died, Aunt Rose Anne went to work at the convent and Bridie hired...