Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airport is in bad repair and it would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel wasteland north of Tihua to Peitashan, a mountain oasis. Of this journey, Gruin wrote...
...might do well yourself, in fact, to follow the party line the next time your maiden aunt asks you about that homicide Saturday south of the border. Just look dark and reconstructed and say, "Mammy, ah reckon ah don't rightly know...
...Eisler's troubles did not end when he caught Myers napping. As soon as he crossed the border at Calexico, Calif., he was picked up by immigration authorities. He was allowed to remain in the U.S. only after he had sworn that he had never been a Communist and that he hated Stalin as much as he hated Hitler...
Home in a Strait Jacket. Desertions from all ranks of the Red Army were so numerous that Russian border guards had been doubled. Berlin saw a typical tragedy. When young Red Army Senior Lieut. Alexis Kovalev was ordered back to Russia, he slashed his wrists. But he was rushed to one of Berlin's American hospitals and recovered. He pleaded for help to get to the U.S. zone. Because of a U.S.Russian agreement to return each other's soldiery, his pleas were vain. When Red Army MPs came for him, Kovalev fought until they clapped a strait jacket...
That done, the Met and the Modern got down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...