Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save College tourists from the inconveniences which confront the erring border-crosser, Downing released several warnings about import duties and currency exchanges...
...save money and avoid trouble at the customs office. Since American money brings considerably more than par value on the black market in certain countries, currency regulations require tourists to show customs inspectors how much they hold in travellers' checks, dollars, and local currencies, wherever they cross a border...
Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...
...once a week privileged Comrade Hoelvold slips across the border to have a powwow with his friends. The Norwegian government, certain that the U.S.S.R. would make him a cause célèbre at the drop of a warrant, leaves him alone. The army finds him handy as an interpreter in tricky border disputes when a wandering cow or peasant gets lost on the Soviet side. As for the neighbors in Kirkenes-"Damn Communism," they whisper, bowing to Gotfred. "But the Russians could be here in a quarter of an hour. We don't want trouble...
...many Americans, Trippe's given name sounds vaguely like some foreigner's; to many Latin Americans, the Juan sounds vaguely like some countryman's. Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came from his Aunt Juanita Terry; he speaks neither Spanish nor Portuguese. He comes from a long line of Marylanders, one of whom fought in the battle of Tripoli...