Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rancher Joe Evans got his religion in an American frontier home where a Bible and a rifle were the two indispensable items of furniture. His rancher father and his mother were devout Baptists, and father fought his share of Indians. In 1890, when Joe was nine, his parents helped found a series of outdoor camp meetings which are still held in West Texas. Joe watched hell-raising Jeff Davis County become law-abiding to the point where the grand jury, eleven years running, could find nobody to indict...
...Information for Settlers," says the sign over a door of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation headquarters in fast-growing little Ephrata, Wash. (1950 pop. 4,584). The word settlers, as used there, is no nostalgic recall of old frontier days. Inside the door sit the 1951 settlers themselves, sun-weathered men & women who have come to Ephrata in search of a new frontier-the irrigated farmland created out of sagebrush desert by Grand Coulee Dam. They ask sober, practical questions, but in their eyes glows the same high excitement that built the U.S. The bureau believes that they are only...
Kaesong (meaning "open castle") was the first major South Korean town to fall to the North Korean invaders, in the war that began on another Sunday, 54 weeks earlier; it fell five hours after the aggressors crossed the frontier. Although the 1 Sunday meeting was only a preliminary to set the stage for cease-fire negotiations to begin this week, the West's hopes, fears and doubts converged, along with the green helicopters, on Kaesong...
SOME say our strategic frontier lies along an island chain, or on a river's bank. I say our strategic frontier lies where aggression threatens liberty...
...strategic frontier embraces the entire Pacific...