Word: brig
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...from all over the nation at the ancestral home most had never seen or even heard of until Redford contacted them. They are, says Redford, "people who have never truly been home before." The Aug. 30 gathering comes exactly two centuries after 80 slaves arrived from Africa aboard the brig Camden to help carve from the swamp a plantation where as many as 328 slaves would eventually labor...
...divison, Harvard's Brig Gulya and Deborah Dubin finished seventh with 45 points...
...Julian Beck, 60, avant-garde actor-director who with his wife Judith Malina founded and for 38 years ran the influential Living Theater, which used improvisation and superrealistic horror effects to shock audiences and express their pacifism and dissent from society, in such productions as The Connection (1959), The Brig (1963) and Frankenstein (1965); of cancer; in New York City...
There was a time when a Navy man talked like a sailor. He cooked in the galley and ate on the mess deck. If he got out of line he was thrown into the brig. But in the 1970s the Navy adopted the language of landlubbers. The galley became a kitchen; the mess deck was termed the enlisted dining facility; the brig was transformed into a correctional facility. Even the snappy BOQ, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, gave way to unaccompanied officer personnel housing...
Equally terrifying is the behavior of some IDF officers once the Phalangists had gone into the camps. Just hours after the attack began. Brig Gen. Amos Yaron, the Israeli division commander in Beirut, was informed by one of his men that something was amiss. He did nothing. Two hours later, a Phalangist commander briefed a group of Israelis, including Yaron, that 300 people had been killed. Yaron simply warned the commander to cease such actions and left it at that. The massacre continued for two more days before the IDF put a stop...