Word: frontier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cockpits have been U.S. citizens (the same type of plane is being used by the Laotian government against the Pathet Lao, is also occasionally flown by Americans). At the controls of one T-28 operating in the Ruzizi Valley near the Congo's eastern frontier recently was a lanky, 30-year-old ex-Marine pilot named Ed Dearborn from Gardena, Calif. His partner, also flying four flights a day to strafe the rebels, was another American, Don Coney. They are civilians, technically listed as hired hands of the harassed Leopoldville government...
...visitors were hardly across the frontier when their Volkswagen was surrounded by some 50 highly nervous rebel troops carrying pangas, clubs and spears, their uniforms ranging from European suit coats to shorts and grass skirts. From their midst emerged a goateed man known only as "Major," clad in green fatigue pants and a splendid monkey-skin bush hat. Commissars or no commissars, the major was not going to let the newsmen continue into the rebel area, angrily denounced Americans because the T-28 planes had attacked only that morning. Offered a pacifying cigarette, the major drew himself up with great...
Despite the predictable foolishness of a plot that further synopsis would condemn, Bride is an amiable featherweight entertainment, mostly because its cast has buoyant appeal. Masquerading as the frontier wilderness of Montana circa 1890, California's High Sierra country fills the wide screen with some breathtaking acreage that no TV oat opera can duplicate. Actor Ebsen seems an authentic embodiment of covered wagon grit. And though Dullea's bad boy characterization scarcely conceals that he is easily redeemable-a sort of boor next door-his warm, fresh, quietly persuasive scenes with Actress Nettleton recall his vivid debut...
Oakland, Calif., has a $65,000 Fairyland with supersize Mother Goose characters and a clocktower slide; a 30-ft. sculpture called "The Monster" whose innards are littered with caves and slides; a series of structures made of wooden piles and culvert pipe, imaginatively painted and arranged; a Western frontier town (with a tombstone inscribed "As You Stand Now So Once...
...series of remarkable victories (the most notable being at Strasbourg in 357), Julian secured the frontier once more at the Rhine. When Constantius died in 361, he became emperor. He died in battle against the Persians in 363, at the age of 32, having been on the throne for only 18 months...