Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night fell on Mishmar Ayalon, a frontier settlement which stretches to the Jordan wire, 20 miles northwest of Jerusalem, a tired, unshaven man, coated with the dirt of the field, picked up his Sten gun and climbed to the roof of his house. The village generator, silent all day to save fuel, started to put-put, and 73 floodlights splashed light across the rocky fields. So began another night in the siege without respite that has been going on for five years...
...surprised French colonials quickly clapped some Goubert men in jail, banned public meetings and put police guards around the Indian consulate; they stopped all Indian traders at the frontier. Police shot and wounded four "illegal" demonstrators. Nehru got off a hot protest note to Paris. Paris called in Nehru's ambassador and protested right back...
...article . . . was no less than magnificent. Most timely, too, and very original . . . to use the frontier analogy...
...Indo-China war indeed seemed to be little more than another colonial war. In February 1947, the French drove the Communists away from Hanoi. In May, they demanded that Ho lay down his arms. In October, the French moved out from Hanoi towards the 500-mile China frontier. But they could not bring Ho to battle...
Against Fundamentalism. Since the advance has never ceased, the modern Harvard and its peers in U.S. education have, in a sense, become the last of the pioneers, operating on a frontier that is never conquered. But as Nathan Pusey has already found out, pioneers are rarely popular. They are threatened from without by those who do not understand them; they are also hampered from within by those who are blind to all but a sliver of the path ahead. For the liberal tradition, therefore, Nathan Pusey has offered not only a defense but a definition. "We are," says he, "against...