Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of the Indoor Athletic Building moved into its final stages Thursday evening and yesterday as the University Housing Office, breaking its own deadline by 36 hours, assigned the last member of the beleaguered undergraduate garrison billeted there to rooms in the Yard or in the Dudley, Apley, Claverly. Little chain...
There has also been trouble at Peita-shan, a mud-garrison hamlet on the Peita-shan range two days' drive from Sin-kiang's dingy little capital, Tihua. Last June, Outer Mongolian cavalrymen, backed by five Russian planes, demanded that the Chinese surrender the position. The Chinese held on despite some bombing attacks. They are still there, holding the Peitashan heights. Through field glasses, the Chinese can watch Mongolian patrols on the north side of the range...
After studying the problem for a year, President Truman's seven-man Air Coordinating Committee, which is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Garrison Norton and Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, last week published a 17-page report on U.S. aviation policy. The gist of it was that something would have to be done, and in a hurry, if U.S. air power is not to slip into impotence. The reason: the U.S. air industry, which has fallen rapidly to peacetime rags from wartime riches, is just about on the rocks...
...week's end the rebels were close to Asunción, and its garrison of raggle-taggle troops that Morínigo hopefully dubbed the "Second Army Corps." His best force was still near Concepción. The rebels called for Asunción's surrender. Morínigo retorted that the rebels would be squeezed to death between his two armies, ordered the capital to remain calm. Foreign diplomats did not take him seriously. A vanguard had already moved across the border to safety in Argentina...
...been found brutally murdered, his head severed from his body. When the ravens leave the Tower, says an old legend, Britain's majesty will topple. As it searched in vain for MacDonald's murderer, Scotland Yard suspected the worst. Another raven was hastily imported to maintain the garrison, and an extra guard of six troops thrown about the remaining ravens. Solemnly and in full state the Tower Beef-Eaters buried MacDonald near the moat...