Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pretty Mean Savages." At week's end Governor Twining flew to Arusha, proclaimed martial law in three frontier forest reserves. "We are dealing with desperate armed gangsters," the governor said. Tanganyika's whites agreed, but unlike their blimpish neighbors in Kenya Colony, some of them understood that the Africans themselves (notably, the prosperous Chagga) are equally interested in keeping the terrorists out. "The Mau Mau made a big mistake in sending this invasion force," said one white official, and a Chagga farmer agreed. "They looked like savages to me," he said...
...Richardson, differ from their brother millionaires in that they do not dabble noisily in politics, propaganda, or welfare institutions. While they stick to business, they have their little luxuries but shun ostentation. Bachelor Richardson lives in the Fort Worth Club, has one of the finest U.S. collections of frontier paintings by Russell and Remington. Murchison shuttles between New York, Washington and a collection of city and country homes in a private DC-3, the Flying Ginny (named for his pretty second wife, Virginia, who accompanies him on many of his trips). He has a 25-room house just outside Dallas...
...China last year massed 60,000 troops in Tibet and pointed their spearheads across the Himalayan passes toward India; it started building military roads right up to India's frontier; it laid down air bases within easy range of New Delhi and the teeming Ganges plain; it sent armed reconnaissance squads to undermine India's shaky border states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China...
Much of Israel is like Mishmar Ayalon-an armed frontier land where the settlers live in constant dread of a shot, a raid, a sudden grenade. The danger breathes down your neck as you drive to Jerusalem through a road cleft into a gorge, under the eyes and weapons of Jordanians perched on the hills. You feel it on the narrow-gauge railway that winds into the city alongside Jordan territory so close that sunflower seeds spat from the train windows fall onto Arab soil. Where Jordan bulges westward, the Israeli beachhead is barely eight miles wide. It takes less...
...Kfar Saba, a stone-and-stucco frontier outpost twelve miles from Tel Aviv, the border runs through tangled orange groves. Almost every night Arab infiltrators flit from tree to tree, and so across the border, to steal and destroy. Some of the intruders are harmless: they come to visit Arab relatives left on the Israeli side, or to steal a bag of oranges from groves that were once their own. But in the past month the settlers of Kfar Saba have lost six cows, seven mules, three horses and three donkeys...