Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's twelve-hour ultimatum demand ed that the Egyptians, but not the Israelis, retreat 100 miles from their own frontier...
More than 27,000 refugees have fled from Hungary to Austria, and continue to stream across the frontier at a rate of a thousand a day. While the number of students included among these is still unclear, it is certain that many have forsaken their homes in order to pursue free academic inquiry. With the advent of winter, the homeless must be housed and fed--and present estimates place the cost at about six million dollars. Harvard's share of this load must be more than a token...
...nations. There can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community. We, finally, look upon change, the ever-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We as a people were born of revolution and we have lived by change, always a frontier people, exploring, if not new wilderness, then new science and new knowledge...
...Jordan but Egypt, and last week the time was right. It did not matter that for weeks there had been comparative quiet on the Egyptian border (Nasser was too busy with the Suez crisis) nor that Egypt did not even have its usual strong Jorces on the frontier. After the big push began, Israel justified its attack by saying that it had arrested three Egyptian-trained fedayeen (self-sacrificers) units that had penetrated into Israel. Israel did not even mother to accuse them of any overt act after entering Israel. The dozen fedayeen hardly justified a war. But the fact...
...Take a Picture for Me." Meantime correspondents were building up pressure at the Nickelsdorf frontier barrier. First to get through was the Daily Express' Sydney Smith. When the guards lifted the barrier for another purpose, Smith gunned his poised car, shot past them and, despite their shouts to halt, lit out for Budapest. Next day other newsmen persuaded the guards to let them through in cars and as hitchhikers on Hungarian army trucks. In Budapest they set up shop in the Duna Hotel, a dingy fleabag on the Danube. There they got a shaky warning from the New York...