Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young freedom fighter after the rebellion is crushed, but who also refuses to hide the revolutionary's machine gun from the Red authorities. Contemptuous of both sides, the professor allows the gun to lie openly in the vestibule of his apartment. Later, the professor travels to the frontier in a train crowded with passengers who hope to flee to the West, at the last moment decides he cannot escape the guilt for having harbored a weapon that was used to kill others...
Wandering through a bitter snowstorm, the professor is urged by a young girl to join her in escaping. The professor is dying in the cold but he refuses. His last words: "Do you suppose that by dragging me across the frontier with your frostbitten, dirty hands you are atoning for anything? . . . Nothing can be changed, my young lady, nothing. The dead cannot be resurrected; wounds only appear to be healed. The main thing is to lead an honest life...
...delight with his rugged good looks. He was able and eager to dance an Irish jig when the occasion demanded. He spoke of the issues in stern, confident tones. He campaigned unabashedly on the claim that his influence would be felt in Washington on his brother's New Frontier. His slogan: "He can do more for Massachusetts...
...rank as the outstanding example of hardship heroically endured in the American Revolution. But the Continental Army spent only one terrible winter at Valley Forge. In the populous East, as Historian Van Every points out in this workmanlike second book of a projected four-volume history of The Frontier People of America (the first book was the well-received Forth to the Wilderness), "the war struck as a succession of violent but passing storms." Boston and Philadelphia were occupied for only nine months each. The campaigns in the South were savage, but did not begin until 1780. And from...
...exception to this pattern of long calm and fitful bloodshed was the war on the western frontier, which began in 1776. From then until more than a decade after Cornwallis' surrender, not a day passed when any settler in western New York, the valley of Virginia or the wilderness drained by the Ohio could count himself safe. His enemies were not merely the British, fighting at first to put down rebellion and later to hold the Great Lakes fur trade, but also the Indians, fighting for vengeance and survival...