Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something about the bottle, about the bright red cap snappy as a frontier bonnet, and the white cotton cloud showing through the translucent plastic, and the label, wide and snug, and the staunch lettering of EXTRA-STRENGTH, the whole shape of the thing comforting, like an old-fashioned milk bottle or a VW Beetle: it looks especially good in rows. Something about the rows, all the neat chunky boxes, one after the other, facing forward like a drill team on the shelf. Something about the shelf, third from the top, aisle B, toward the rear of the store, about which...
Early on the morning of Aug. 28, PFC Joseph White of St. Louis was on duty, assigned to scan the North Korean frontier just 15 yds. away. Some time before dawn, White walked out to the chain-link fence surrounding Guard Post Ouellette, blasted the lock on the gate (probably with his M16) and scurried north. About 7:20 a.m., an Army comrade spotted him on the other side of the rugged no-man's land: still carrying his rifle, the blond G.I. was grabbed by a squad of North Koreans and hustled down into their bunker...
...West, Louis L'Amour continues to celebrate the ideals of a fantasy frontierland where law triumphs over disorder and cowpokes don't go in much for either gunplay or foreplay. If they are anything like their creator, how would they have the time? The author of 81 frontier novels (some 125 million copies in print) with a whip-cracking output of nearly three new books a year, L'Amour may have to take at least one day off in the coming year so that he can head back east to Washington to be honored along with Bandleader...
...younger generation knows that $9,287 will not buy many tickets to a Fleetwood Mac concert, but the S.M.A.P. remembers when $10,000 was generally accepted as the unofficial frontier to wealth. To be "a $10,000-a-year man" was synonymous with membership in the upper middle class. That was what the S.M.A.P.'S father had earned as a professor at Harvard, and when the S.M.A.P. was young he considered it the height of vaulting ambition to earn as much. Some day, when he too made $10,000 a year, he would be able to consider himself...
...interested in preserving Iraq and does not want to see our country in a bad condition. At the same time, the Soviets say that what took place in Iran, after the fall of the Shah, has the meaning of a great change in international strategy. Iran lies on the frontier of the Soviet Union. We are not accusing or cursing the Soviet Union. Iran is. We are not following the Soviet Line. Iran is. The Soviets have targets and aims in the region, among them Iran...