Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hickory. Dogged adherence to fixed ideas, independence, equality, a tradition for violence and abhorrence of ostentation-upon all these Tennessee prides herself. She likes to think she inherited them from Andrew Jackson, the old border fighter and duelist who declared: "Ask nothing but what is right, submit to nothing wrong. . . . True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions; it can only dwell with the people-the great laboring and producing classes that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy." Old Hickory's shoots still spring green in the Volunteer State...
...Finns did a little raiding of their own. Finnish fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...down from the hillsides on skis, began potting them from the woods with machine guns. It took little of this to convince the Russians that they had gone too far from base. Their trucks and tanks, which last fortnight had rolled in a steady stream southward along the Norwegian border, last week rolled less steadily northward. With the Finns harassing their flanks and rear, this retreat soon turned into a flight...