Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back Nasser's ambitions, would be to create a U.N. force with troops from such middle-size powers as India, Brazil, Norway, large enough to seal off Lebanon's borders. Nasser has been happy enough to accept just such a U.N. Emergency Force to seal his Palestine frontier since the Israeli withdrawal of 1957. Such U.N. assistance might stabilize the little country long enough for the rebels to stop fighting, for Chamoun to serve out his lawful term, and for a new President to take office unburdened by the legacy of hate and dedicated to restoring Lebanon...
...bachelor's degrees in English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother Goose, Robin Hood, Les Miserables, and kidded the stirrups off "adult" westerns in a skit titled: "The Frontier Psychiatrist . . . dedicated to the brave men who brought mental health to the West...
Three forums dealing with "The Frontier of Knowledge" will be open to the public this morning...
Discovery. Mike's use of so hallowed a table symbolizes no bottomless irreverence for Alaskan tradition, but rather the muscular spirit of the ever-changing, booming vastness that was once a faraway, forgotten frontier. As Governor, he has, in a sense, discovered Alaska all over again. "Man," says he, "it wasn't until I got into office that I really began to appreciate, with our resources potential, how much we could have accomplished even by now, if only we had the freedom and the responsibility to operate...
...Iron Curtain" -the Old Warrior's cousin, Irish Critic Sir Shane Leslie, passed on a few newsy nubbles about his famed relative: "You know, his father never thought that Winston had the brains for college. Winston got his education as a subaltern in the campaigns of the India frontier. He took with him to India three books, Macaulay's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian Lecky. When he returned, he was still in his early twenties, but he had received a liberal education from the study...