Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seaboard states; it guarantees that any state will have exclusive rights to anything that may be discovered under its navigable lakes and rivers. For Texas, there is a special bonus: Texas will get control of the sea for three leagues (10½ miles) from shore (because the Texas frontier was thus defined when she joined the union in 1845). And another provision grants all seaboard states 37½% of anything the Federal Government manages to dig up beyond the marginal seas-clear to the edge of the broad continental shelf (which stretches out about 100 miles along the Gulf...
...General Ridgway's headquarters in Tokyo put out a statement designed to show a cleavage between Moscow and Peking. Russia., said the statement, had inveigled the Chinese into the Korean war in order "to slash the strength of China . . . because a strong China on Russia's southern frontier is the Kremlin's nightmare . . . China fought and bled while Russia looked on. To Mao Tse-tung this could hardly look like bosom comradeship ... It may mean China eventually goes the way of Yugoslavia . . . The Reds have been so busy looking for cracks in the structure of the democracies...
Outside the country, a Hungarian church in exile is growing swiftly. Its communicants: 200,000 refugees who have fled since 1945. Its frontier outposts: a dozen relief stations in Western Europe (mainly Austria), where the Hungarian Caritas (Catholic welfare organization), financed by U.S. Catholics, gives shelter to Hungarians of all sects who manage to slip across the border. The Vatican's man in charge: Monsignor Josef Zagon, 42, onetime chancellor of the diocese of Györ and follower of Cardinal Mindszenty, who escaped from Hungary just before the cardinal's arrest...
...frontier has new sounds: the hum and roar and clatter of powerful machines; for the sagebrush country around
...accuse Louisiana's Jim Bowie of lacking nerve. Besides, Lafitte is dead drunk at the mo-mert. As for Catherine, who can blame her? Bowie is a bluff, broad-shouldered god, at once bold and gracious, a fighting terror whose terrible knife is to become a frontier legend, yet so gentle that a woman's touch makes him tremble...