Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Humphreys' Hubert Jr., 17, Rob ert, 16, Dougie, 12, and Nancy, 21, peddled buttons and literature up and down Main streets. Virtually all officialdom from Humphrey's Minnesota, led by Governor Orville Freeman, swept across the border to campaign for their man. The two candidates themselves kept up a grueling, sun-up-to-midnight schedule, attracted increasing swarms of voters wherever they went. This week, as the campaign rocketed toward the April 5 finish line, the fighting was getting rough...
Swedes wryly joke that hardened Finnish criminals have been moving across the border, finding that crime pays better in Sweden. One group of hobby-loving prisoners put together a radio transmitter, and were stopped only when Stockholm police reported hearing dirty ditties being broadcast on the wrong wave length-their own. Another prisoner was held to have carried visitors' day liberties too far. Giving the prison's street address, he had advertised for cuties whom he photographed in the nude for "art" pictures to sell to fellow inmates...
After awakening Asia's neutrals last year by its invasion of Tibet and its arrogant claims to territory all along Tibet's southern borders, Red China has been working overtime lately to put its neigh bors back to sleep. In January, Red China agreed to recognize the traditional (but never actually marked) McMahon Line as its common border with Burma. Last week Red China agreed to establish a joint committee to delineate with Nepal its boundary with Tibet. Until the committee completes its work, both nations agreed to "ensure tranquillity" by refraining from sending troops within 20 kilometers...
Curiously enough, there is at the same time a sizable flow of men, women and children in the other direction. The Communists have set up five refugee reception centers on their side of the border and claim that last year 63,076 people crossed over to the East, 41,585 of them redefectors who had left East Germany and then decided to return. Some were miners fleeing the Ruhr coal surplus, others had family problems like a sick mother back home, still others were misfits who had not made themselves a place in the swift-paced life of the Federal...
...back into his arms by swimming in the Mediterranean. There in 1936 a fellow naval officer named Philippe Tailliez gave him a pair of goggles used by pearl fishermen. Cousteau put his head beneath the surface. Instantly his life was changed: "There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof...