Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier path used only by U.N. observers...
...Fastest Gun Alive (MGM) misfires before it is clear of the holster. The gun (a frontier-model .45) belongs to Broderick Crawford, a hulking fellow with itchy fingers and the single-barreled aim of killing any man who claims to be quicker on the draw. But even as he drills a slower man out in Silver Rapids, a blind seer mocks him: "No matter how fast you are, there's always somebody faster." Crawford like to have strangled...
Knowing craftsmen in the dog-story game have practically made a convention of the tragic ending, and Author Gipson is not the man to trifle with convention. So Old Yeller has to go. But with his sure knowledge of Texas frontier life, a brace of engaging heroes and a loose-jointed, simple style to match, Author Gipson can probably depend on a substantial crowd of dog lovers eager to follow Old Yeller all the way to his bier...
...Eastern frontier with Russia, and the day may come when Turkey and Britain will want to act in the Middle East, and Greece will not. "The Egyptian government has opened the door to Soviet penetration of the Middle East," Menderes went on. "Why should we consent to place the whole future of Turkey at stake...
Spelunkers, outfitted with mountaineering and diving equipment, delving ever deeper into the earth (unofficial world-record descent: a depth of 3,232 ft. into France's Gouffre Berger cave near Grenoble), are pushing back the last frontier. But fast as they push, the awesome unknown seems to recede before them. What is known about caves bows before the murk that is not known about them...