Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From the Klondike the Yukon River brawls across the U. S. border into desolate interior Alaska at the town of Eagle.* Here is tough country. At times spirit thermometers show cold of 70° below zero, and lower. The Arctic Circle is only 100-odd miles north; friendly Fairbanks is 200 bitter miles west. Few sourdoughs and no chechakhos live on these rolling tundras, where the ground is frozen several hundred feet down-country in which Chechakho Jack London starved and froze, seeking gold and finding stories...
...Concert Master": Two Symphonies by Haydn 8:30 "The Man You Want to Meet": Interview 9:00 "South of the Border": Music of the Americas 9:30 "Crimson Capers": Harvard Talent Show from minutes to music-makers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Vaughan Williams Symphony in F Hoist St. Paul's Suite Hoist The Planets 10:45 Crimson News and interview
Greek military spokesmen said the Italians were in retreat from the sea to the Jugoslav border, across snowy mountain passes, with the Greeks in "hot pursuit...
...these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians sent wave after wave of planes to strafe Greek positions everywhere, and concentrated tanks near the Yugoslav extremity of the border...
...being sent to Poland, Germany's Siberia. Almost all of the 800,000 Frenchmen naturally chose France. The Germans, under Gauleiter Josef Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...