Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of great popular support for the nation's first ally. Thomas Jefferson secretly schemed to enlarge the Navy's operations in the Barbary wars. President James Folk's reckless acquiescence to annexation fever during the Mexican War created dissent in Congress and among non-frontier voters that, in Javits' view, stood "unequaled until the war in Viet...
...world there's no road for their rock and roll anxiety to follow: they jump in their drag racers and drive back and forth on the strip, letting off steam. Teetering at the brink of a world not quite ready to release the new energy of a frontier mentality, the kids have a brief moment of loud, confused frenzy before they go to Vietnam or settle in the suburbs...
...They were wary of Dayan's aggressive plan because they concluded that such an attack would infuriate world opinion, leaving Israel open to charges that it started the war. They also reasoned that Israel could hardly afford to mobilize each time the Arabs increase their strength along the frontier. If Israel mobilized in response to every Arab move, the Arabs would have the nation on a yoyo, feinting buildup after buildup merely to wear Israel down. Intelligence analysts, moreover, still could not say with certainty that the Arabs would attack. Thus the Cabinet voted down Dayan's call...
...conference of non-aligned nations in Algiers, the Chinese went to great lengths to portray the Soviet Union as a "dangerous friend." While the diplomatic battle rages on, the most immediate danger still lies along their common 4,000-mile border. The military face-off on the desolate frontier pits the two largest land armies in the world against each other, the more potent of them clearly the offensively geared Soviet force. Though a Soviet strike against China presently is unlikely, the possibility remains a chief source of anxiety for Peking's leaders...
...public forum. An aroused City Council should lead the fight against the museum, and all affected neighborhoods and interest groups should join in this fight. The Library Corporation would do well to stop taking Cambridge for granted and realize that it is more than just John Kennedy's last frontier...