Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached the border-a procedure that permitted effective censorship of democratic journals while allowing the Communists to claim that freedom of the press was being maintained. At the end of February, 1948, however, TIME was banned for keeps. But some copies managed to get through, and Halla sometimes saw them...
Tito in his reply to Moscow complained of Russia's "demonstrative Soviet troop movements in the neighboring countries along the Yugoslav border"; these, he said, were intended "to intimidate the Yugoslav peoples and to exercise pressure upon them." His most immediate worry was not that Yugoslavia would be invaded but that Yugoslav Communists would split under the Red army pressure...
Congressman Murphy and Mrs. Murphy had just dropped into the capital by air. Meanwhile, six other U.S. Congressmen were welcomed over the border in Catalonia by a brass band and flower girls. Then they proceeded to Barcelona, accompanied by Pablo Merry...
...approach of the Chinese Communists across the border has given the Reds visions of decisive victory, but it has also aggravated a growing rift between the hard Communist core of leaders around Ho, who are ready to accept Mao Tse-tung's leadership, and the rank & file, who fear China and want Viet Nam for the Viet Namese. One French general told me: "For two years I had to keep statistics of desertions to the Communists. For the last two months my statistics are Communist desertions...
Every year, thousands of light-skinned and straight-haired negroes cross the line. Not the Mason Dixon line but another border of far greater significance--the line which divides white from colored in American society...