Word: frontier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stalin shared this cover with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Japan's Emperor Hirohito and Henry Pu-Yi, the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo. The Japanese-led Manchurian army had clashed with Soviet-backed Mongol forces. Said TIME: "In the deep fastness of Western Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier 'incidents' as the Japanese Empire...
Outlaw Peck has the fastest draw in the West and a dozen killings to prove it; but at 35 he is worn, broke and hankering to live out his days peaceably with his estranged wife and son. He rides into a town behind the frontier to find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers...
...cost a dime was published by Beadle in 1860. Malaeska; The Indian Wife of the White Hunter came out in the yellowback that was to become the trademark of infamy to U.S. parents. A few months later came Edward S. Ellis' Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier which sold like dollar bills, 40,000 copies in the first few weeks...
...some choice German territory along her western borders. At Potsdam, for the sake of "harmony" with Russia, the U.S. and Britain agreed that Poland was to administer "provisionally" the strip of German territory east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, "pending the final determination of Poland's western frontier...
...money. Before the contest comes off, the gambler strolls off for a mustache-twirling romance-which provides Composer Foss with an opportunity for some witty, satirical mustache-twirling music. Dan'l loses the contest, but the villain's villainies are found out, and he is brought to frontier justice...