Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt looked close to victory in the 1940 election. With the West, South and Border States almost solidly for him, he apparently needed only a brace of Eastern States to coast home. But Franklin Roosevelt was never a chicken counter before hatching time. Apparently he was the only politico in the Democratic Party not suffering from overconfidence. Conversely, Wendell Willkie seemed the only major Republican not suffering from defeatism...
...take the tests, only about 900 are finally admitted every year. A large percentage of these are taken in without any reference to their extra-curricular activities but simply on the basis of their marks in school and on the College Boards. In the border cases however, the general all-round abilities of the boy is taken into consideration...
...Turkey (for strategy, see color map opposite p. 62), was somewhat more hypothetical-because of the unknown quantity, Russia. But Germany and Italy would like to have a go at bothersome Turkey. Excuses for a campaign in the Balkans were a dime a dozen. Italy had one all ready: border strife between Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations threatened a major short circuit at that partly burned-out fuse last week. The way had also been paved by the partition of Rumania and the abdication of King Carol. By last week the Iron Guard's revolution in Rumania had been...
Southern Rebel. South of what was once the Mason and Dixon border, rebellion has been mixed up traditionally with conservatism rather than with reform. Lawrence Lee is a Jeffersonian Southerner, an Alabaman who went north to Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity...
...Incident" is no rippin', rarin', shootin', swearin' type of wooly Western bellowdrama, with horsemen riding hell bent for leather towards the Mexican border pursued by pop-gun posses. In Clark's book there is only one shooting and three hangings, all told, and even then the fellow that gets shot ain't killed...