Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American pilot, Lt. Warren B. Brown, emerged with only scratches as he parachuted into a Bavarian woods, 15 miles from the Czech frontier. His plane, an early type jet, crashed and burned...
...frosty Seattle morning, the vast white bulk of Mount Rainier sometimes seems to be floating low in the southern sky. East and west, the peaks of the Cascade and Olympic ranges run off sharp, cold and glistening along the horizon. Looking at them, Seattle likes to reflect that the frontier still exists: the mountains are still as pitiless-and as alluring-as they were when Henry Yesler's little sawmill was first cutting Douglas fir logs and Indian war canoes still coursed Puget Sound's lonely arms of green tidewater...
...bitterness between India and Pakistan is a frightening thing which grows from day to day, sometimes from hour to hour. Newspapers of both sides report minor frontier clashes as major engagements, so that invasion seems imminent. Politicians remind their listeners of those terror-filled days in 1947, when 12 million Hindus and Moslems were uprooted from their homes, and perhaps another million (the exact figure may never be known) were massacred under conditions of unbelievable brutality. In five years since partition, neither country has solved the problems of this mass dislocation: each has millions-perhaps 8,000,000 between them...
...halves separated by 1100 miles, condemned by partition to hold a 4,000-mile frontier against Russia, China, Burma, Afghanistan, Iran and India, Pakistan makes sense as a nation only because it feels itself a nation. Its cocksureness could set a subcontinent on fire. Yet one thing seems certain: now that they have a country of their own, Pakistan's Moslems will defend it to the last gasp...
...Munich railway station, he almost gave the show away when he called out in English, "All right, Hank, I've got the tickets," but he drew only glares from the crowd. A short distance from the Swiss frontier, they were challenged by a German sentry, but posed as Flemish workingmen and convinced him. That night, less than four days after leaving Colditz, Reid and his friend stopped under a lamppost in a Swiss village and shook hands. Even the British government thought it was a pretty good getaway. Reid's reward: the Military Cross...