Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Affair? Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza affected bland surprise: "I'm told Calderon Guardia invaded Costa Rica-but that's his affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...
Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden do some wooing and wrangling on the Ohio frontier of the early 1800s (TIME, Sept...
Winter came early in the mountains of northern Greece this year. For almost two months the Greek army had been fighting waist-deep in snow along the craggy frontier. Whenever the gunfire died away, the sharp cold silence was shattered by another sound, the voice of the rebel radio. "Greek soldiers, why are you up here in the mountains slowly freezing to death, dying like trapped mountain goats? Whom are you fighting for? Rich people sitting back comfortably in Athens, avoiding their military service and getting richer and richer? What...
...inflationary effect of large profits and unreasonably high prices." Although the economy was turning out more than ever, "more and cheaper consumer services" are still needed. "As long as these needs exist, we should not worry about having a 'mature' economy. We still have a frontier to push forward." When it was over, one delegate commented: "This was a damn good speech. I say that, and I'm an old Tory...
Rachel and the Stranger. Robert Mitchum, Loretta Young and William Holden on the Ohio frontier of the early 1800s (TIME, Sept...