Word: frontierment
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Major trouble could also erupt on Iraq's unstable northeast frontier. The 13-year-old civil war between Baghdad's Baathist regime and the dissident Kurds might lead to a far more serious clash between Iran and Iraq because of Iranian backing for the Kurds...
Janet Wohlberg has joined with Litsas, Backman, Buckley and others in combating what they call America's "gun culture." They are reacting against values that have a lot to do with the lingering myth of the "frontier spirit" but little to do with modern urban society. "Our country has changed since the days of the wild, wild, west when men wore a six-gun strapped to their hip for protection," Buckley says...
...control advocates are reacting against values that have a lot to do with the lingering myth of the "frontier spirit" but little to do with modern urban society. "Our country has changed since the days of the wild, wild west when a man wore a six-gun strapped to his hip for protection," one advocate said...
...darling of the Arab world. Still basking in his U.N. triumph, the P.L.O. leader last week flew off to Cuba aboard an Algerian Boeing 707 to confer with another revolutionary turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent. Indeed, earlier in the week...
What is the latest word from the sexual frontier? It may be "retreat." Though there is little likelihood that things will ever go back to where they were 30 years ago, the signs are that the sexual avant-garde-those who practice "swinging," group sex, open marriage, bisexuality and the odder forms of experiment-is in decline...