Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
Last week, Lieut. General Sir John Harding, British commander in Italy, commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Cried Rome's newspaper Il Tempo: "General Oreste Bellomo [Italian commander of the Bari garrison during the war] was executed for having killed a British soldier. Human justice is very uncertain and frail...
Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...
...Liberian Army officers persuaded their bibulous countrymen to disperse. Now the U.S. Army has more than doubled the Roberts Field garrison-it flew in 13 more G.I.s from the occupation forces in Germany...