Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They finally found it-a two-story house of rust-colored brick on the border between white and Negro districts in midSt. Louis. The place was 50 years old, but it had a lawn and stood on a quiet, elm-shaded street. They made a down payment, signed a mortgage and moved in one day in October 1945. That evening a process server notified them that they had been sued by a white neighbor. The neighbor wanted to throw them...
Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...
...Roman law and government, the Christian religion. It is the heir to England's Magna Charta, to France's cathedrals (and France's revolution), Italy's Renaissance and Germany's Reformation, to Don Quixote, the Divina Commedia, the Nordic sagas. Lacking a fixed geographical border, it has included the Slavs and Magyars of Eastern Europe when they chose to accept the European heritage. It has never included more than the fringes of Russia...
Last week, 55 years later, provincial authorities at the same frontier faced a similar problem. For the third time in as many weeks, small groups of Indians had stepped across the border in deliberate violation of colonial "ghetto" laws. Sixty people were arrested; but police pointedly failed to arrest the leader. South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name...
Nicaragua's Somoza feared that those guns were now to be turned on him. From his hilltop command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...