Word: bordered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high school Killebrew starred in football, basketball and baseball, was spotted as a promising native son by Idaho's laie Senator Herman Welker. At Welker's urging, a Washington scout traveled west in 1954 to watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted Senators unbuckled their bankroll, paid out $30,000, and Killebrew became Washington's first bonus player...
...have drowned, and two people died in the search for her body. Then Ma Kennedy began to receive ransom notes from alleged kidnapers, and their language read suspiciously like Aimee's own phrasemaking. Finally, 36 days after she disappeared, Aimee reappeared early one morning in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, babbling that she had escaped from her kidnapers and wandered all day and night in the desert heat. But her shoes were unscuffed, and she was neither sweaty nor thirsty after her ordeal. Nor was she ever able to point out the shack in which she claimed...
Plans call for a small "contact group" to depart for the Far East soon in order to rendezvous with "cetain persons" and investigate the possibilities of crossing the Tibetan border and collecting arms stores...
...parlor diplomat (he loathes parties, puts up with them only as part of his job), Cabot is known around the State Department as a skilled troubleshooter who works at his job and writes sharp, effective reports. His technical qualifications for Rio include duty at seven posts south of the border (his wife, an American, was born and reared in Mexico City), a swing through Latin America in 1953 with the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and service as U.S. delegate to a number of Latin American conferences. Prognosis for his Senate confirmation: smooth and uneventful...
...task of supplying an answer. Their reply, presented in prime evening time (8 o'clock, E.S.T.), was television journalism at its best-the sights and sounds and sad, bitter memories of a divided city, caught by an accident of history far on the wrong side of the Communist border...