Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt their action to be entirely wrong ... [It was] a sheer misuse of U.N. to take advantage of the absence of the Russians from the Security Council and of the presence of the wrong Chinese government . . . When the American forces, dragging us with them, advanced right to the Manchurian frontier, I was quite unable to blame the Chinese for intervening . . ." Cole's conclusion: "If Great Britain gets dragged into war with China by the Americans, I shall be on the side of China...
...Middle East. Fact is, however, that they show no serious sign of such an intention. Turkey is the only country in the area whose defenses are in good shape and Turkey can be outflanked by a Soviet thrust through northern Iran and around to Turkey's southern frontier. The historic invasion road to India also lies through Iran. Yet no effort is being made or even planned for coordinating the defenses of the Middle East nations...
Early last October 3,000 mountaineer soldiers, well-equipped by Tibetan standards with castoff British battle gear, held the vital frontier fortress of Chamdo, 370 miles east of Tibet's capital, Lhasa. They were preparing for an orthodox daylight attack by the invading Red Chinese...
...activities of the body, especially those concerned with reproduction and growth. But no one knows how they work. No doctor can predict for sure how each patient will be affected. Until the central facts have been discovered, the experts agreed at Cuernavaca, the steroids will remain an exciting, disorderly frontier of medical science...
...front north of Hanoi in a battered old command car. They wanted to see the thin French defenses that hold back the Reds from all of Indo-China and Siam. Every couple of miles they passed small forts which, except for being brick, looked like something out of American frontier days. Troops had made up for the shortage of barbed wire by slanting up rows of sharpened bamboo sticks-which are quite effective until someone puts a match to them...