Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atwood is a native of Chicago, but his family roots go back to frontier days in Alaska. One of his uncles had made geological surveys for the Government all over Alaska, and another uncle had founded the Bank of Alaska...
...Western powers that he was not going to collapse in Moscow's arms, he heaped praise on the U.S., Britain and even France for help to his country during the war, and angrily denied that any love fest with the Cominform Communists was in sight. "On the frontier still," he said, "their rifles are shooting our guards. Their press is slandering us. If the U.S.S.R. has softened its propaganda, that is not enough for our country to change its attitude . . . Any changes must be demonstrated by deeds, not words." And what were Tito's own reassurances...
Sacred? Yes, the right to hold our hands up in defense of God and freedom for all peoples to live without having some one knock in the door, without a barbed wire frontier...
...been able to build a nation. Let us accept the divorce, end the dogfight." Thus, last week, spoke Heaton Nicholls, 77, grand old man of British South Africa. A lifelong champion of Empire who carried the white man's burden as soldier (on India's North West Frontier), colonial administrator and judge (among the Papuan cannibals), Nicholls was alarmed by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Boer victory at the polls (TIME, April 27). Heaton's proposal: the predominantly British province of Natal should secede from the Union...
Burma, former British colony (pop. 16.8 million) which became an independent republic in 1948, has no realistic control over its northeast regions, where it has a long frontier with Red China and Laos. Here Burmese, Red Chinese and Li Mi's Nationalist Chinese mix like the colors of a dangerous kaleidoscope. If they can fight their way to the Mekong River at the border of Laos and Burma, the Viet Minh Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh will be in a position to strengthen the anti-government forces in Burma...