Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensational; they are content to make a beginning. Nor are all Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated the Taft-Hartley Act. The harangues came through clearly in the handsome Quaker homes that border the Pendle Hill property, causing these quiet neighbors to express definite anxiety at such stridency...
...tank and the body, four miles inside the Palestine border, were the not-very-high-watermark of the boasted Arab advance in Galilee. By last week the Arab tide had ebbed back to the borders, and beyond...
...communiques. But behind the curtain of Arab and Jewish censorship, men & women were fighting and dying. For the most part, both Jews and Arabs stayed within the partition boundaries, fixed by U.N., but Israeli* forces captured Acre in the north, fanned out toward the Lebanese border, and attacked Arab Ramie near Tel Aviv in an effort to open the lifeline road to Jerusalem's Jews...
...provisions of a new plan now being worked out by the Committee on Scholarships, near border-line cases will receive special consideration before grants are revoked, officials indicated last night. First practical application of the plan will come up this summer, when final grades for the spring term are completed...
...bought it innocently enough), officials took a brand-new Cadillac, and announced that owners of other smuggled cars faced the same treatment plus a six-year jail term and a $1,000 fine. Last week, motorists driving into Mexico were asked to surrender car-ownership certificates at the border. Federal inspectors also moved in on bribe-taking customs men who connived in letting big shipments through, arrested five customs officers...