Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
...going to write about? His previous works, American Interpretations of Natural Law and The Growth of American Constitutional Law, are a clue to the tenor of Wright's thinking. And he was one of the first to explode the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis on the impact of the frontier on American history...
...hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
...French troops tied down in Algeria. The following year, to seal off Algeria from Tunisia, French forces began construction of the grandiose Ligne Morice (named after former Defense Minister Andre Morice)-a 150-mile, electrified barbed-wire fence running south from the Mediterranean coast parallel to the Tunisian frontier...
...stock markets were closed for the day. Then, under the glare of TV lights, Diefenbaker announced a 180° shift in the course of Canada's air-defense planning. The R.C.A.F. will gradually eliminate the nine jet squadrons that now guard the continent's northern frontier, replace them with radar-guided Bomarc missiles built in the U.S. Into the discard: Canada's pride and joy, the big, 1,500-m.p.h. Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor, which cost $303 million to develop, has been in flight-test for six months...