Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malaysia," which he claims is a "neocolonialist" British puppet state. Along the perilous 900-mile jungle border between Indonesian Borneo and the Malaysian territories of Sarawak and Sabah, British and Malaysian troops have fought a series of bloody clashes with Indonesian "volunteers," who dart back and forth across the frontier sacking military outposts...
There is also a tendency to see in sex not only personal but social salvation-the last area of freedom in an industrialized society, the last frontier. In one of the really "in" books of recent years, Life Against Death, Norman O. Brown has even suggested a kind of sexual Utopia. In his vision, all repressions would be eliminated, along with civilization itself; the future would belong to sexuality, not just of the present "genital" variety, which Brown considers a form of tyranny, but the all-round, innocent sexuality a child
...York is 200 years away from its frontier," explains Governor Connally. "Texas is only 50 years from it. Fifty years ago, Texans were riding against Pancho Villa. That's history pretty close by. Here in Texas there is a first generation of city dwellers who understand the country. People who live in cities still know how to work hard, get up early, sew and cook. They still put up provisions and keep vegetable gardens. These are a thrifty people. These are people who say, 'If you don't need it, don't buy it.' Lots...
...trying to play the humble-beginnings record," he says, "but I studied by kerosene. We had no electricity. There were no paved roads. In my childhood, this country was still raw frontier." Connally's grandparents lived in the Floresville area, as did his parents. His father had been a tenant farmer, then ran a meat market and worked as a laborer before the family moved on to San Antonio when John was ten. There his father drove a bus from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, covering the 144-mile, one-way round trip each...
...making arrangements for such face-to-face discussions as soon as it is convenient. May I hear from you?" Goldwater turned Rocky down. Said he during a stopover in Los Angeles before returning to Washington: "Debating him would be more like debating a member of the New Frontier than like debating another Republican. I see no sense in Republicans berating other Republicans...