Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Iraqis on their east. And last week, after Syria had glumly withdrawn its 4,000 troops from Jordan, the Syrian army issued an angry statement accusing the Jordanians of having at one point in last April's crisis requested "three Iraqi divisions, placed at the frontier, aiming to attack the Syrian forces...
Kadarj also offered Mindszenty safe-conduct to the frontier from his hideout in the American embassy, but the cardinal refused, not trusting Kadar's word. Some Vatican officials believe that if Mindszenty were to leave the embassy, it would mean imprisonment, and perhaps death. "The only question is," mused one Vatican insider last week, "should he choose this martyrdom? It would be the supreme fulfillment of his sacred mission. But he cannot offer himself egoistically. It is a question of practical timing and of holy vocation. He cannot submit himself until he himself feels that martyrdom will not unduly...
...earth where the girl lay was torn up. The Austrians saw immediately that the girl had been injured by a mine, and concluded that there were probably other mines in the strip. At the edge of the woods beyond the frontier six Hungarian soldiers stood watching the girl. Neither the Austrians nor the Hungarian soldiers made a move to help her. Some of the Austrians drifted off, ashamed of their helplessness in the face not only of the mines but of the fact that the girl was beyond the fence in Hungarian territory...
...Author Berlin's simple account of that occasion, two symbols can be glimpsed: the Kohinoor diamond on the Queen's breast and the Comstock Lode that had carried Louise to Buckingham Palace. The fabulous diamond and the fabulous silver mine, the power of empire and the American frontier thus met; they could scarcely be expected to understand each other, but their meeting nonetheless seemed to have about it a touch of destiny, even of continuity...
...Last Frontier. In New Brunswick, N.J.. Patrolman James Gray, spotting a new fire hydrant on his beat, investigated, found that the nearest resident was keeping the parking space in front of his house open with a cork imitation...