Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Skipping lunch, MacArthur boarded the SCAP for an air reconnaissance along the border. The SCAP took MacArthur over the Communist stronghold at Sinuiju, the Suiho power site, and the whole length of the lower Yalu to Hyesanjin, where the 7th Division had reached the river. At Hyesanjin, the SCAP swooped down and waggled its wings in salute. Then it headed southeast for Tokyo...
...China Foreign Office spokesman last week charged French air and ground forces in Indo-China with "provocative attacks on Chinese territory." Warned the Reds: "Our border troops have been instructed to hold the frontier firmly and to deliver counterblows to the provocateurs." In Moncay, the only remaining French-held outpost on China's border, TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs reported an ominous quiet...
...their side of the border the French run up their flag. Then a Legionnaire unlocks an iron-barred gate which at night closes one end of the narrow steel bridge over the Song Kalong. The bridge is Indo-China's last link with China. Northward the whole frontier lies wide open...
...attenuated form they called him René the Stick, and truly it sometimes seemed as though René could slip through holes that would stop a toothpick. In 1942 the Vichy police had picked him up for robbing a farm, and René had skipped across the border into occupied France. The Germans picked him up there and sent him to a labor camp in Berlin. Two weeks later he had escaped again and was back in Paris...
...Holland, hard by the German frontier, looks like any other scrubbed Dutch town; but it is not. Every year Finsterwolde sends a wire addressed to the Kremlin offering Joseph Stalin birthday congratulations. And Finsterwolde's town fathers have officially made known that should Soviet forces cross the Dutch border, the town would "welcome the Red troops with open arms...