Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Streit argued that his was the only answer to the union which Russia herself had already created-a Red federation which stretched from Berlin to the Pacific and the border of India...
...hills around Besenhausen on the border between East and West Germany were veiled in sunlit haze one afternoon last week. On the Soviet side of the crossing point, a tired horde of D.P.s moved forward as the barrier pole swung up. On the British side, British officers and customs controllers, German border guards, police, priests, nuns, nurses and refugee administration officials looked at the sad group facing them...
Those who got across the border threw their arms around the welcoming nurses, or cried with relief; two women fell to their knees to kiss the soil of freedom. A little boy hugged his teddybear: "Teddy's come all the way from Liegnitz. He and I are going to live with uncle." One little girl, given an orange, had never seen one before, thought it was a yellow potato. The refugees left behind watched silently, too exhausted for envy, too worried for vicarious happiness. When the reading of the British list was ended, only 55 refugees had crossed...
Poland for his six children, had found three and brought them to the border, only to find that they were not on the list...
Despite the fact that most U.S. state courts refused to recognize them, Mexican quickie and proxy divorces have long been popular with U.S. citizens. More than 1,000 U.S. petitioners a year enjoy south-of-the-border liberation...