Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Steinbeck fared even worse, but made less fuss about his failure. His novelette, Burning Bright (produced also as a play that flopped), was a slick but transparently thin plea for universal love. Robert Penn Warren went back to his native Kentucky for a frontier novel of violence and tortured emotions, World Enough and Time. It had power and murkiness in about equal proportions...
...China Foreign Office spokesman last week charged French air and ground forces in Indo-China with "provocative attacks on Chinese territory." Warned the Reds: "Our border troops have been instructed to hold the frontier firmly and to deliver counterblows to the provocateurs." In Moncay, the only remaining French-held outpost on China's border, TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs reported an ominous quiet...
...their side of the border the French run up their flag. Then a Legionnaire unlocks an iron-barred gate which at night closes one end of the narrow steel bridge over the Song Kalong. The bridge is Indo-China's last link with China. Northward the whole frontier lies wide open...
When the Bulgars slipped nearly 1,000 passportless gypsies into a Turkey-bound contingent, the Turks closed the frontier and threatened to appeal to the U.N. The Bulgarian Reds were at their most disarming: "What is there here to discuss...
Finsterwolde (pop. 3,250) in northeastern Holland, hard by the German frontier, looks like any other scrubbed Dutch town; but it is not. Every year Finsterwolde sends a wire addressed to the Kremlin offering Joseph Stalin birthday congratulations. And Finsterwolde's town fathers have officially made known that should Soviet forces cross the Dutch border, the town would "welcome the Red troops with open arms...