Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulling most of its weight out of the Pacific and shifting to the Atlantic. The great Pacific battleground, which had once been dotted with Army & Navy bases, crisscrossed with the wakes and aircraft courses of the mightiest fighting fleet in history, had become a lightly patrolled frontier. Behind a defense line running through the Marianas to Okinawa, Japan and Alaska, the U.S. had retreated to its own West Coast...
...with a peephole through which guards could watch her. A bright light glared down in her face. "All night between snatches of sleep, I faced my sins." Why was she there? Her best guesses: 1) she had annoyed somebody by trying to get to China via the "closed" Manchurian frontier; 2) it was a "stupidity of some department eager to make a record...
Elsewhere, throughout Eastern Europe, the people Low met were usually helpful and friendly -if they were sure the police weren't looking -and Low is convinced that American prestige is still high there. It was much the same in the purple mountains of Northern Iran on the Soviet frontier, where Low spent some time last summer with a Kurdish chieftain of the Shikakki tribe, listening to a portable radio churning Russian-sponsored incitements to revolt while the chief conveyed his high regard for Americans and obviously meant...
Flagrant Violations. The treaties, said the U.S. State Department, have been "flagrantly violated" by Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. The three satellites have ignored the clauses limiting their armed forces, both by building up regular armies larger than permitted and recruiting "irregular" formations, such as "frontier guards," militia, etc. They have consistently sabotaged the "property rights" of the Western nations, guaranteed under the treaties, notably by expropriating U.S. and British oil companies. Above all, in a long series of political and religious persecutions, they have trampled on the treaty clauses in which they promised to all their citizens "without distinction...
Thus far The God-Seeker reads somewhat like any other frontier novel, with Martin Arrowsmith cast as Anthony Adverse. When a revival meeting comes to Adams, however, and Aaron, aged 25, finds himself at the mourners' bench without quite knowing how he got there, the book takes on a distinctive air that makes it unusual among drum-and-petticoat books and also among Lewis' own 20 previous novels. Aaron Gadd tries to be a Christian...