Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from Moscow when Stalin liquidated thousands of Red army officers in the purge of 1937, and like many of his fellows, profited by stepping into dead men's shoes. In 1939 he commanded the Red Banner army in Outer Mongolia, where the Russians were engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known action helped deter the Japanese from attacking...
...Korean war, the Communists have attacked and shot down seven U.S. reconnaissance planes over the Pacific. The U.S. has shot down three of its Communist attackers. Such incidents are increasingly regarded as one of the inevitable hazards of the costly reconnaissance along the cold war's bristling frontier...
Earlier groups of settlers are writing "tearful" letters home, pudgy Boss Khrushchev said, "reproaching" the government with the fact that, in addition to enduring the rigors of the frontier, they are expected to pay heavier defense taxes as bachelors. Revealing himself as the originator of the bachelor tax, he added: "If 100 million were added to our 200 million population, even that would not be enough. There must be in a family at least three children...
...33rd birthday, and for the next two days Rally officials celebrated. At the Hamburg control point, Germans rose to a man and broke into a gutteral version of "Happy Birthday to You." On the Dutch border, smiling customs guards waved her steel-grey Sunbeam across the frontier. All along the way well-wishers gave her flowers, which she tossed into the rear seat where one of her co-drivers, Mrs. Anne Hall, was trying to sleep. "If we have an accident, you'll look good in all those flowers," said Sheila...
...George Caleb Bingham, a self-taught painter who grew up in Missouri. Bingham's Osage warrior lying in ambush is tense testimony to the wagoner's haunting knowledge that Indian eyes were always on him. But Bingham's masterpieces are the superbly drawn scenes of settled frontier life, electioneering, shooting competitions and riverboat life. Painted in the 1840s and 1850s, they already point to the days when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn will think of Injun Joe as an outcast, when the streets will be lined with whitewashed fences...