Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always tne Frontier...
...aimlessness, Ike heeded a friend's advice and took an examination for Annapolis and West Point. (The Navy lost a future admiral because he was eight months too old for the Naval Academy.) In June 1911 he reported for duty, "Eisenhower from Kansas, sir," thus consigning his frontier exuberance to the stern mold of discipline of the Point...
Pasha) sailed into action to help the beleaguered frontier guards. The Israeli ambushers killed 13 Jordanians in one truck. But they could not break off action until they brought up artillery, and heavy guns were firing over the border along a ten-mile front. Windows shook in Tel Aviv, 20 minutes away to the west. At Kalkilya shells rained both on the fort and the town, killing a nursing infant, his brother, an old woman. By 4:20 the Israelis finally pulled out. This time when they crossed the border they did not cheer or sing their mambo tunes...
Typical of such frontier news sources, he discovered, is Churchill (pop. about 1,100), a fast-growing grain port and supply point for the strategically important eastern Arctic. Nearby Fort Churchill is a cold-weather proving ground for Canadian and U.S. military weapons, gear and clothing, and has been designated for next year as an observation station for the International Geophysical Year...
...kill three Israeli Druze watchmen at an oil camp in the eastern Negev desert, not far from where Jordanians had ambushed a busload of Israelis last month. Next night a powerful Israeli army force-some 1,000 troops according to Jordan sources-slammed twelve miles across the desert frontier into Jordan and, supported by artillery and bombing planes, wiped out a police post at Gharandal, almost midway between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea. Jordan reported ten police, National Guardsmen and civilians killed, eight wounded...