Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know is this - and I'm hoping TIME can supply the rest: in the middle of the last century there lived in Maryland a Negro woman, a slave, who felt so strongly on the subject of human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
...Russian vetoes in 14 months; no other power had ever vetoed the will of the Council majority. Two weeks ago came veto No. 11. The majority of U.N.'s Balkan Commission had reported that Greece's Communist neighbors were supporting Greece's Communist guerrillas. The U.S. proposed a border watch. Gromyko promptly vetoed it. Last week Gromyko got around to explaining his veto. His remarks were intended for gulliberals of the Henry Wallace school rather than for his Security Council' colleagues...
Andrei & the Wolf. Said Gromyko, in effect: the Greek Government is to blame for all the border troubles. Foreign military missions (meaning the U.S. and British) must be withdrawn. Foreign economic aid (meaning U.S.) must be subject to a commission that included Russia. Otherwise the situation would end in the servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko?who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time?poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention...
...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...Concepción. The rebels called for Asunción's surrender. Morínigo retorted that the rebels would be squeezed to death between his two armies, ordered the capital to remain calm. Foreign diplomats did not take him seriously. A vanguard had already moved across the border to safety in Argentina...