Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief threat to Stroessner is a colony of exiled Paraguayan oppositionists -a third of the population of 1,600,000 -most of whom live across the border in Argentina. In December they scared him enough to make him black out the palace, send troops to the frontier, get the Argentine government to impound two Beechcraft planes that seemed set to bomb Paraguay. In Buenos Aires, Paraguayan exiles announced that they were drawing up a list of "war criminals" to be executed "after the liberation...
...luggage (132 lbs. for children). Furniture may not be taken with them, and it may not be legally sold. The emigrants are required to write and often to rewrite statements that they had never had it so good as in Rumania. As a last indignity, at the frontier, all cigarettes are taken from them...
...omission of phrenology from the Harvard curriculum is indeed unfortunate, for it is a part of the great American cultural heritage, what Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has called "the intellectual backwash of a backward frontier economy." Surely such stuff is fit meat for the intellectual appetites of hungry Harvard students...
Thus last week the U.S. picked up a new frontier state more than twice the size of Texas, a vast treasure chest of iced-in natural resources, a strategic base with frontiers on the Bering Strait, three miles from Asia. The U.S. also picked up in Alaska its first noncontiguous state, and thus added a new dimension-and a new promise-to the Union that had grown from Plymouth Rock and Philadelphia through Appomattox and Omaha Beach to become the bulwark of the free world...
...shells that would make the bad hombres of yesteryear laugh themselves sick. Before making the draw, he must keep his hand on a button four inches from the holster. When his hand leaves the button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants fix a man-sized target, are timed from draw to bullet's impact...