Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles away in San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Thomas Coakley looked thoughtfully at the ax-hewn pine timbers of the oldest courthouse in California, picked up a pencil and began to write: "In the days when this courthouse was built, the law was young and often painful on this frontier. We developed in 1854 what our pioneers recognized, as did their forebears in the East, that there must be a respect...
...those who complain about the mystery of international law and lack of precedents, I suggest they reflect upon the famous jury charge of Andrew Jackson in his frontier court, and then reflect upon the growth of domestic law to meet the needs of our people. International law can do likewise." No one knows better than Lawyer Rhyne that the rule of law cannot be imposed on peoples of the world until they have learned to understand and respect it. He knows too that understanding and respect begin at home. He originated the the idea of the first...
...grey dawn last week, having slithered over some 200 miles of mountain roads, an odd-looking apparatus fitted with armor plate and periscope came roaring out of a Macedonian pass and, before anyone could stop it, bored through the wooden frontier barrier. "I took my chances and steered with the help of the periscope," said Ivanov later. "The road was straight and level. The old goat would not give more than 30 miles an hour, but I took all 30. And we made...
...reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
...individual plots to cultivate as soon as they reclaim enough land. And to get them further used to what life in Israel is like, police units taught them how to guard against Arab infiltrators, who have long been a security worry along this hitherto unsettled portion of the frontier...