Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...review of my novel, The Barons, TIME guessed wrongly in one small, but important, particular. The city of Susquehanna is not ... in Delaware. A careful reading of several passages having to do with travel would have revealed that Susquehanna lies southwest of Wilmington, across the frontier of Delaware, in a state that at first glance would appear to be Maryland. This state (whose name escapes me) borders on Delaware for some 100 miles ... In character, speech, and appetites, its inhabitants are a shade more southern than Delaware's, which doubtless accounts for the differences your reviewer noted between...
Last week the Polish government's newly created Communist Office for Religious Affairs answered by charging that the bishops had violated Article III of the church-state agreement. In Article III the bishops had agreed to seek Vatican recognition of Poland's new western frontier on the Oder-Niesse Line. The bishops had not been purposeful in pressing this request on Rome, and Rome had ignored...
...Sinners. In August 1939, Pundit Kaltenborn confesses, he made a prize boner. Asked if he thought war would come soon, he said in clipped, confident tones: "The odds are still seven to five in favor of more appeasement." Two days later, "Hitler's blitzkrieg roared across the Polish frontier...
...Apparently the Chinese Communists have completely swallowed the Russian lie that the United States is the aggressor in the Korean War," Fairbank explained, "and they fear our presence near their frontier...
...Flags West was written and produced by Casey (The Macomber Affair) Robinson with obvious enthusiasm. Director Robert Wise gets much of the authenticity of Brady's famed Civil War photographs into the bleak details of the P.W. camp and the isolated frontier post. Jeff Chandler (who was the upstanding Indian chief in Broken Arrow) plays the bitter and contemptuous commanding officer of Fort Thorn with such conviction that he very nearly steals the picture from Stars Cotten and Darnell. When the Kiowas come swarming into the fort, Two Flags West ends with just about as rousing an Indian fight...