Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would merely buy them, using its accumulated trade surpluses. With a glance at the Iron Curtain, Schaffer added piously: "We must never forget that we are a border country, and that it would be politically extremely imprudent to build up a war industry a few kilometers away from the frontier ... A wrong picture could be created beyond this frontier...
...Laird, oil geologist from Oregon. His rival is David Cope, a "pommy" (Australian slang for English immigrant) who runs a neighboring station, a pint-size affair of about 300,000 acres. Mollie goes off to Oregon with the ice-cream addict, Stanton, but when she discovers that the U.S. frontier has been all softened up by milk shakes and civilization, she returns to the rum and mutton of the Australian never-never to cope with Cope...
...mile frontier between Burma and Communist China runs through some of the world's wildest country. In its southern reaches, the limestone mountains of the Shan States rise to almost 9,000 feet, and at its northern end, snowcapped Himalayan peaks push up to more than twice that height. At lower altitudes, an average annual rainfall of 200 inches produces thick jungle cut only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese...
Oddly enough, these were the first U.N. casualties since the 1949 truce. But the lot of the U.N.'s 60 unarmed policemen on the world's hottest frontier has never been a happy one. Lonely, unloved, powerless, they keep round-the-clock watch in border dugouts, alert for mischief and ready to radio their chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, in case of trouble. Their cars have been burned and stoned. They have come under fire that they swear was not accidental. They have been ignored. When the Israelis staged their big El Auja...
...made a career out of battling the British in his native land. The son of a clerk in the Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...