Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
...movie should have ended as Marlowe walks out of a border station with fifty rifles pointing at him and chants of "Niva, Niva" coming over the radio in the background. But instead, Marlowe and the dancer are freed. The last scene takes place on a London-bound airplane, where Marlowe and the dancer suddenly become aware of their mutual affections. As the picture comes to a close, the dancer says she is going to be sick. She ought...
Cambridge police became irate when some student border guards would not let citizens cross the mythical line. Armed with tear gas bombs and hand grenades, the police repulsed the students. And the matter ended there...
...know (and so did all the world) that the Chinese Communists had been strengthening their forces on the Manchurian-Korean border ever since the beginning of the Korean war. Nobody knew, and MacArthur's intelligence could not be blamed for not knowing, what the Chinese Communists intended to do with these forces. A reasonable argument was that if the Chinese had intended to come in, the best time was last July when they and the North Koreans could easily have pushed the U.N. forces off the peninsula at little cost to the Chinese. That was the consensus at Washington...
...crushing Chinese counteroffensive in Korea had put General MacArthur on the griddle at home and in Europe. In Washington, carefully anonymous military officials who love to chuck harpoons at MacArthur leaked reports that he had defied Administration suggestions that he halt his troops well short of the Korean-Manchurian border. Nervous European politicians charged bitterly that MacArthur wanted to plunge the U.S. and her allies into a major Asiatic war which would leave Europe undefended. MacArthur promptly struck back at his critics through the press. In a statement solicited by the New York Times's Arthur Krock, MacArthur denied...