Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proud to claim common citizenship with the U.S. farmer. His referendum vote clearly demonstrated that the national backbone, though morally soft and pliable in most sectors, stands straight and strong in the agricultural area. We sorely need this "old frontier" independence; God forbid that the New Frontier plow it under...
Today, the U.S. maintains some 4,500 military personnel in Thailand. They help build roads, fly helicopters and operate U.S.-Thai radar stations. One group of Navy Seabees is building a 6000-yard jet airstrip near the frontier with Laos...
...behind the driver's seat; her mother was wedged into the luggage compartment. "Luckily," says petite Margarete, "Mother is just like me." Leaving nothing to chance, Meixner also let air out of his tires to lower the car. Shortly after midnight, Meixner drove to the entrance of the frontier area, showed his Austrian passport to a guard, who waved him on to the customs officer. Bricks for Mamma. It was the time for action. Instead of pulling up at the customs shed, Meixner gunned his motor, skidded around the slalom barriers, and shot past the startled guard. Looming before...
...Josiah Lee Auspitz, has attracted writers who make no distinction between Jewish experience and their own. Paul Cowan is a good example. He spent six months in Israel last year, teaching school in Beersheba, an immigrant town near the Negev Desert. In a fluent article called "Beersheba: On the Frontier" Cowan analyzes the problems created by the massive influx of North African refuges into Israel. As Cowan points out, in recent years the nation's population balance has shifted and more than half of all Israelis are non-European. Assimilating these ill-clad, uneducated North Africans to Israel's westernized...
Grant on a Cloud. In the early House, many members were fresh from the frontier and settled their political squabbles in the ways they knew best-with curses, fists and duels. On one memorable occasion, 30 pistols were whipped out during debate on the floor. "Kicking-Buck" Kilgore of Texas once booted down a locked door to escape a quorum call. "Tim" Campbell of Tammany threw an arm around President Cleveland, who had complained that a bill he favored was unconstitutional, and growled: "What's the Constitution between friends?" Davy Crockett campaigned for the House on the basis...