Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close as 20 miles beyond that, as Sergeant Nolen knew, lay outposts of an elite, nuclear-armed Soviet army group of 20 to 25 divisions and more than 5.000 modern tanks. Nolen's key weapon...
...West Germany, effective instrument of close-in engagement, works at the diverse, contradictory problems of cold-war alertness in the nuclear age. The Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...
...death throes of Tibet were made graphic as some 7,000 rebel refugees surged across the border into India. Many were wounded; some still carried the weapons with which they had futilely battled the Red Chinese. At Misamari, an abandoned Indian airport that was used in World War II as a take-off point for flying over the Hump into China, work is being rushed on a refugee camp, a hospital and maternity station. Unlike the Hungarian refugees, who were easily absorbed in Western countries, Tibetans may have serious difficulty adjusting to any society more complex than their...
...than a religion. "What Christians desire for their Jewish brethren is not so much conversion as continuation, a building onto their heritage, not a break with it. Religiously we all are Jews. It is intolerable that we should abandon those to whom we owe so much just at the border of our Promised Land...
...lead them across the border, Sweazey recommends personal friendship without the usual treatment of religion as an embarrassing subject. As the result of such tiptoeing, "many Jews know only a grotesque caricature of Christianity, compounded of a three-headed divinity, salvation by being dipped in blood, a slighting of rationality and ethics, and a dependence on gross wonders." As Jews and Christians become closer friends, Chairman Sweazey hopes, "Christ will become better known and loved on both sides...