Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government, Hussein, fortnight ago, renamed as Premier able Wasfi Tal, 42, who was summoned home last February from his post as Jordan's Ambassador to Baghdad and ordered to breathe new life into a wheezing administration. A onetime British army captain who takes Washington's New Frontier as his model, Tal installed a young, twelve-man Cabinet that included eleven university graduates, immediately fired 150 corrupt or inefficient senior officials in a housecleaning that swept out his own uncle...
...Ceylon itself. They had taken it upon themselves to find a solution to India's dispute with Red China over the aggression in the Himalayas. After three days of top-secret sessions, the neutrals solved the problem all right. They will recommend a demilitarized zone along the Himalayan frontier and suggest that neutralist nations be chosen to police the forbidden zone. It was just the fuzzy solution Red China would adore...
...More frontier adventure is packed into the corporate history of the Hudson's Bay Co. than into all of Kenneth Roberts' novels. In the course of its 292 years existence, "the Bay" has fought shooting wars with the French over fur trapping in Eastern Canada, and tussled with the U.S. over the Oregon Territory. To look at the remodeled Winnipeg warehouse that is the company's operating headquarters, or to listen to its board of directors ceremoniously called to order in London as ''the Annual General Court of the Governor and Company of Adventurers...
...Conformity is basically a psychotic state. That is the frontier that has to be opened. To hell with the astronauts. To hell with the moon. There's a whole sky in your chest that's waiting to be explored...
...disputed territory as a prelude to negotiations. India still refused to negotiate while the Chinese were in Ladakh, and Indian patrols continued maneuvers against the Chinese posts there. It should, therefore, have caused little surprise when Chinese troops later crossed the McMahon Line and attacked the Indian North-East Frontier Agency...