Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When we decided to escape, nine of us were finally in the party. At the frontier, my sister led, cutting the barbed wire and pointing: 'There is a mine, and there-go between them.' I want to go to Australia. I hope the women there will not be treated like me. I would rather be hung than work in the mines again...
...Webb and his disappearing frontier to the contrary, it appears that there is still considerable elbow room over the next ridge...
...town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin's bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly "torn to pieces" by the crowd...
...three weeks, we waited. I didn't sleep a single night. I quarreled with my family, who wanted me to stay, but we had made our decision. On a moonlit night, the three of us met in the town and headed through the fields for the frontier. We were 20 yards from the border when someone began whistling in Morse code to the border guard. So we crept swiftly back to town. The next night we made...
...animals' milk. Often we killed camels to get drinking water." Forty of the Thaji's party, including the youngest of his three wives, nine brothers, and two boys, aged one and five, were lost. One night while they slept in their tents at Urduk on the Tibetan frontier, the nomad refugees were attacked by Communists, who killed eight men and drove away 300 sheep, 13 camels and 25 horses. "But we killed ten Reds," said Thaji Kussa proudly...