Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could handle the situation, and he found the man at his elbow. Captain Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's lifelong friend and private secretary, was a Virginian who at 29 combined impressive military and diplomatic experience with a lively intellect, immense stamina and wide knowledge of the frontier. Go west, young man, said Jefferson-and westward Lewis went...
What with so many Texans present, it sometimes seemed as if it had been Jack Kennedy four years ago who really assembled the Great Society and Lyndon Johnson who was now opening up the New Frontier. If so, it was a prosperous, well-behaved and superbly dressed frontier-and a dazzling show. The colors and sounds and faces seemed always the same, suspended for a brief moment, only to shift into new combinations, new designs, new moods. Scenes of high and solemn moment, as in the oath taking, swiftly changed to crowded dance floors, to prancing horses and strutting drum...
Nonetheless, Churchill pushed himself into five wars in as many years. In all of them he managed to double as a war correspondent, thus launching the first of his many celebrated careers. After covering British campaigns on India's Northwest Frontier and in the Sudan-where he figured conspicuously in one of history's last great cavalry charges-Churchill also turned out excellent books on the fighting. He had honed his style with extensive reading: Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Macaulay's History of England, Plato's Republic, Darwin's On the Origin...
Fearing Israeli retaliation, tiny Lebanon last week tried to beg off. Its Premier, Hussein Oweini, suggested that the pumping station might be built in Syria instead of Lebanon. When the other Arab leaders wrathfully pointed out that the only possible Syrian location was so close to the frontier that it lay within range of Israeli guns, Oweini finally gave in. But, nervous at the risk of foreign politics on his soil, he rejected the proposal that troops from other Arab states be stationed in Lebanon for "protection" against the Israelis...
...last week there was no firm evidence that foreign officers or troops were fighting with the Simbas. Even Tshombe's complaint to the U.N. Security Council that "rebel hordes, led by foreign officers, particularly Algerians and Egyptians, are operating all along the Congo's northeastern frontier" was carefully worded to avoid specifying which side of the frontier he meant...