Word: frontierisms
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...week's end, the first alarm was over. The jitters had subsided on the East Coast. The West Coast, which in World War I had had between it and war the vast bulwarks of the continent and the Atlantic, now found itself facing war on the frontier-war in the Pacific, war with the Japs, the war that Western boys had heard of all their lives. In more senses than one, it was the Far West's first...
...Rosten's poll of Washington correspondents ranked the Tribune next to the Hearst press as "least fair and reliable" of all U.S. newspapers. That poll reflected the Tribune's savage anti-Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines...
...midway on the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga to Lake Onega, thence directly north almost to the White Sea, thence northwestward to the region of Salla, which Russia took from Finland in 1940. These boundaries would include almost all of Soviet Karelia, would give Finland a more easily defended frontier than at present...
...difficult. Almost everyone is poverty-stricken and living from hand-to-mouth. Although one would sincerely regret Austria being merged in the German Reich, the fact remains that the average Austrian would, for a variety of reasons, probably find life far easier than at present. Unless there were drastic frontier alterations in Europe, which one cannot visualize except as the result of a war, Austria clearly has no future. This certainly cannot be said of Germany, which one must admit is an extraordinarily progressive country, however one may deplore many happenings resulting from the Nazi regime...
Q.E.D. After staging vast maneuvers on India's long-turbulent North-West Frontier, the Army announced officially: "Our troops are being prepared for the day when a vast offensive movement will be launched against the enemy...