Word: frontier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would venture to guess that there are many liberal intellectuals who, like myself, will support Nixon on principle rather than from resignation. For through his actions of the past year he has managed to dispel much of our previous distrust and bring flickering visions of the New Frontier and Great Society back to life. It was Nixon who surprisingly became the champion of the old liberal values: social harmony, optimism, internationalism, and-above all-fairness. His moves on the diplomatic and economic fronts have destroyed what we feared in him: the image of an intransigent dogmatist...
...whistle-stopping tour through Kassel, the small medieval towns of Eschwege and Northeim, and on to Hanover and Wiesbaden. He assured listeners in the towns bordering East Germany that "each little step toward peace has helped," and prophesied that within a few years families separated by the frontier would soon be able to visit freely again. "We need all the votes we can get," he told the large and enthusiastic crowds. "Help me, my friends." His audiences responded with a chant: "Willy, Willy, Willy...
...across the Kagera River, and overwhelmed a company-sized Ugandan garrison near the village of Kyebe. Then, climbing aboard the garrison's trucks and Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital of Kampala...
Police were not amused. Justice Minister Rene Pleven instructed the Paris district attorney to arrest Aranda and charge him with "stealing, concealing and revealing." Frontier police and Orly airport officials were also ordered to catch Aranda-though, as the Paris daily Le Monde wryly pointed out, not to question...
...days. It's no longer quite as easy to ride roughshod over the range six shooter in hand, rustling a few hundred heads here and there. Today's Texas stock is mostly paper not cattle or sheep, but as Harvey Katz's expose of Texas politics demonstrates that same frontier morality still exists, despite the increasing complexities of the world of high finance...