Word: frontierisms
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...Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus!" Inhabitants of the haughty International Settlement regarded the Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
...border between Russian Siberia and Jap-held Manchuria is 2,100 miles long, much of it trackless country designed by nature for frontier incidents. Tokyo and Moscow reported some 2,500 such clashes between 1931 and 1942; any one of them would have been enough to touch off a war if either nation had been in the mood...
...Pushed the Pacific frontier 3,000 miles closer to Tokyo. (In a historic 19 days-Jan. 31 to Feb. 19-the throbbing Navy, spread-eagling the Pacific, supported landings at Nasugbu on Luzon, bombarded Manila Bay, supported landings at Mariveles and Corregidor, made a carrier task force attack on Tokyo, supported the landings on Iwo Jima and bombarded Paramushiro-an area of operations covering 860,000 square miles...
...even that hope was in danger. If the western Allies and the Russians, beating up from the Austrian frontier, could meet quickly, the bastion would be useless. Allied tank columns tore southeast toward Nürnberg at week...
PATRICK HENRY AND THE FRIGATE'S KEEL-Howard Fast-Duell, Sloane & Pearce ($2.50). Twelve stories of frontier life and Revolutionary incident told by the author of The Unvanquished and Citizen Tom Paine with convincing authenticity...