Word: frontierisms
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...Britain is the only piece of land in friendly hands, big enough, and within reach of the continent of Europe (and also able or willing to provide the necessary facilities), on which a large American force can assemble for launching an attack. Britain is thus America's eastern frontier and first line of defense...
...frigate Constellation at Newport, and the flag of a new Admiral went up. After almost three years as Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CinCLant), efficient, Gothic-faced Admiral Ingersoll had moved on to a new job. By this week he was busy, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, speeding the flow of ships, men and supplies across the Pacific to Annapolis Classmate Chester W. Nimitz...
...Britain's courageous token army in less than a month. Then Greece was just another conquered country. Last week, except for a few stragglers, the Nazi conquerors had packed up and run. The British moved in on their heels, with the aid of Greek patriots reached the Yugoslav frontier in 38 days...
Born in Rock Springs, Wyo. in 1900, Florabel roughed out a semi-frontier childhood with ten brothers and sisters. After graduation from the University of Washington, she tried schoolteaching, dropped it for reporting. The newspaper circuit took her to the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the now extinct San Francisco Journal, the tabloid New York Daily News, then back to Los Angeles...
Spaniards in France meanwhile laid plans for an anti-Falangist meeting in Toulouse, 60 miles from the Spanish frontier. Purpose: to decide upon "the best methods" of overthrowing the Franco Government...