Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoping to build a better understanding of the U.S. and good will for us." In New Delhi, India's Premier Nehru keynoted a stack of hail-he's-on-the-way editorials by observing: "We are very happy and look forward to his coming . . . As the border problem is an important problem, I presume it will come up in the course of our discussions...
Something for Nothing. To New Delhi's notes of protest, Red China filed counterblasts charging India itself with "provocations" and "border violations," asserting: "Frontier guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have all along been stationed in this entire area." Otherwise, asked Peking righteously, "How is it thinkable that China could have built a highway through this region?" The fact that the Chinese suffered few casualties in the latest skirmishes, said Peking, "exactly proves that the Chinese side was on the defensive. Anybody with a little knowledge of military affairs knows that...
Then, with bland audacity, Red China's latest note hinted at a weird bargain: if India would give up a portion of Kashmir around Ladakh, China might stop its border pressure in India's Northeast Frontier Agency, a region lying 850 miles farther to the east between India and Tibet, whose frontier was settled 45 years ago when the so-called McMahon Line was defined. "If Indian troops may cross at will the traditional and customary Sino-Indian boundary in [Ladakh] for so-called patrolling, then Chinese troops would have all the more reason to come...
...Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food and water to last three days and hired a Nubian boy to guide them through the desert...
Uncertain Guide. For nearly three weeks, searching parties crisscrossed the scorching desert, and helicopters hovered over the deep desert canyons. Though the travelers had been seen at the U.A.R. border post of El Shallal, they had never turned up at Wadi Haifa. Those whom the police questioned were shocked to hear that anyone had attempted the trip in two small cars not specially equipped for the desert: since all roads and railways end at Aswan, the only really safe way to make the trip is by Nile steamer. The adventurers had either not known this or not cared...