Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truculent Face. The Russians are undoubtedly genuinely concerned by the West's advancing of the missile frontier. If they really feel as strongly as their notes to the Scandinavian nations would indicate, however, they can demonstrate their concern at the one forum which is specifically designed to deal with it: the U.N. Disarmament Commission meeting now in session in London. But the Russian notes suggest that more is involved than a prudent looking to their defenses. Russia, on the diplomatic defensive since Hungary, is apparently trying to go over to the attack. It has decided, said Bulganin, to "strengthen...
...Corps Engineering School (mornings devoted to intricate work in the classrooms; afternoons to project work in the wind tunnel, propeller and engine test labs), and made a place and a future and a lot of friends for himself in the vanguard of the Air Corps' technological frontier force...
...Hard Way. "No need to be squeamish," urged London's conservative Time & Tide. "He is a gangster dictator and must in the end be dealt with as such." Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, heading for the Gaza frontier, threatened a renewal of war. In a Chicago speech, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington declared: "There will be no real peace in the Middle East until Nasser is out of power...
...medical historian (TIME, March 10, 1947), and former director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine (1932-47), who retired to write an eight-volume History of Medicine, finished only one; of a stroke; in the Swiss Alpine village of Pura, Ticino, near the Italian frontier...
Fisher's latest bestseller was Pemmican, published last August and judged by the critics to have captured the spirit of the frontier as well as did A. B. Guthrie...