Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five minutes before noon one day last week, the whole Pacific slope of the State of Washington, and border areas of Oregon and British Columbia, began to twitch. Seattle's 42-story L. C. Smith Tower and hundreds of lesser structures began to groan and sway. Automobiles waltzed crazily on highways. Bridges creaked. Chandeliers swung like pendulums. Dishes and bells set up a wild jangling. A million people simultaneously felt shallow-breathed fear...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
...three Messerschmitts over occupied France. After bailing out with a leg wound, he spotted an old Frenchman, chopping wood, who looked trustworthy. Chuck introduced himself in West Virginia English. The Frenchman put him in touch with the underground, which smuggled him by painful night marches over the Spanish border. Franco's Spaniards put Chuck and some pals in jail...
Persia, from which the U.N. had forced Russia to withdraw her troops in 1947, seemed to be selected as the main area of Soviet pressure. This week from Teheran came reports that Soviet tanks and armored cars had rolled over the border into Azerbaijan and opened fire on a Persian outpost at Qanli Boulaq near the Caspian Sea. Two Persians were killed. The border incident was the most serious of six such attacks on Persia in the past few months...
Troops in armored cars occupied railways, telephone exchanges and border stations. They arrested El Kuwatly in Damascus' military hospital, routed Premier Khalid el-Azm out of bed and carried him off in his blue silk pajamas. By morning most of the cabinet was locked up in Damascus' Citadel, and Syrians got their first look at their new ruler...