Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costa Rica for harboring the international Caribbean Legion, dedicated to the overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The two quarreling neighbors were warned to be on their best behavior; for good measure, the council ordered a five-man military mission to oversee the troubled frontier...
Young Editor Edward Kemble seemed to have what it took to be a frontier journalist in San Francisco in 1848 (pop. 375). It was a time when editors had to be "true with the rifle, ready with [the] pen and quick at the typecase." But Kemble just didn't seem to have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense...
Rachel and the Stranger. Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum and William Holden on the Ohio frontier (TIME, Sept...
Rachel and the Stranger. Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum and William Holden on the Ohio frontier (TIME, Sept...
...ideas, their point of view (their "consciousness"), are reflections of these contradictions, of these struggling, contending forces, and of their eruptions into new things. Says Stalin: "The material life of society . . . is primary, and its spiritual life secondary, derivative." An example (not Stalin's): in the U.S. frontier days, a man's life depended on his horse. Therefore, to steal a horse was a capital crime; tree gallows were handy for horse thieves. The material conditions created a deep feeling...