Word: frontierment
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...outpost on the Pacific Coast in 1860, they named it "Ruler of the East," partly to taunt the Chinese. The magnificent harbor was the choicest item in a territorial package that Alexander II had wrested from the politically declining and militarily impotent Manchu rulers of China in one-sided frontier adjustments in the mid-19th century...
...tradition. In Paris he gets gambled away by his decadent master in a poker game. The proud new keeper is none other than a vulgar American family from the backwoods who struck it rich shouting its way along the grand tour. When they return with poor Ruggles to their frontier town in the Northwest, the butler is utterly lost. Until he begins to discover "what America means." He breaks away from a servile tradition of centuries and strikes off as a small independent businessman. In the famous scene when he recites the Gettysburg Address...
...worries in particular about the contamination of Iran's proud cultural heritage by modern life. In fact, there is an untrammeled kind of frontier spirit on the loose in Iran today; past heritage is being bulldozed into rubble as the country tries to build a future...
...some 500,000 Mexicans are thought to have succeeded in slipping across the frontier and to have found low-paying jobs on farms and in cities. The Mexican Government has often complained that these illegal immigrants are subject to ill-treatment and unfair exploitation in the United States...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower Center is in Abilene, a town of 7000 in the plains of central Kansas. A 19th century railroad terminus for huge numbers of cattle being driven from the open range in Texas, Abilene was a classic frontier town. Wild Bill Hickok was once marshall there...