Word: frontierisms
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...message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from jail last December, ever since...
British officers near Kohima on India's frontier were politely baffled by the two Americans. Their three-day passes checked perfectly; they were in the front-line area legally enough. But they made the most amazing request. Bored with running railroads back of the line, they insisted that they wanted to spend their holiday killing Japanese...
After the armistice Alexander commanded a force of Letts and Germans which fought the Russian Reds in the Baltic. Later he visited Istanbul (where he introduced the Irish jig to the astonished Turks), moved on to India, where he got in some skirmishing on the northwest frontier. He also found time to marry beauteous Lady Margaret Diana Bingham; they have three children. A classic specimen of the English professional officer type, Alexander is self-contained, quiet, outwardly confident when the world shakes. He speaks German, French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick...
Willa Gather, once nonconformist, now classical frontier novelist (Death Comes for the Archbishop, etc.), onetime managing editor for McClure...
...Dreadful Silence. But it would be broken again & again. Bombers were over the Münster-TAKE COVER . . . bombers were crossing the Reich frontier . . . enemy planes approaching at low altitude-beware of machine-gun attacks. In areas where the bombers were striking, radio stations would go off the air and there would be silence-dreadful silence...