Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildup had begun last fall when India launched Operation Brass Tacks, a war game that took place along the frontier and involved 180,000 troops. This alarmed Pakistan, which responded by deploying two armored divisions near India's Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir states. Move and countermove began an escalation that threatened to drift into...
...commanded a platoon at Danang in 1965. He describes in his book how some of the veterans tried to describe to the inexperienced Marines what it was all about, and how the new recruits refused to listen. "They had already been where we were going, to that frontier between life and death, but none of us wanted to listen to them," Caputo writes. "So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its own war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same illusions, and learn the same old lessons...
...traditional American frontier of horizontal space was receding into memory by 1920. In its place grew a new myth that supplied one of the core images of American art deco: the conquest of the air, by buildings and machines -- the taming of vertical space. The aircraft, with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number...
Ralph: One can't start recriminations too early in a marriage. You know, Wanda, pushing back the frontier of the preposterous is arduous labor, and I often wonder why lawyers and sociologists have to shoulder so much of the burden...
...losses from mortgage sales. Moreover, 122 S and Ls now count among their assets so-called net-worth certificates, which are little more than Government IOUs that have been handed out by the FSLIC to dress up the balance sheets of troubled institutions. The rules helped Oklahoma-based Frontier Federal Savings & Loan boost its net worth from a negative $44 million to a positive $14 million. The General Accounting Office says that without these accounting gimmicks, 43% of the thrift institutions in the U.S. would be considered insolvent (with fewer assets than liabilities) or nearly so (with a net worth...