Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Creech Jones's second talk was with Lieut. General Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine High Commissioner, who came to obtain permission for Britain's Palestine garrison (reinforced last week by hundreds of tanned desert veterans from Egypt) to launch an all-out offensive against Jewish extremists...
Necessary Effort. The French garrison mopped up most of Hanoi and fought off heavy counterattacks, but found it hard to get out except by air. Other garrisons in Tonkin were besieged. The rebels shelled Haiphong on Tonkin's coast, and Hue on Annam's coast. The French fought with planes and tanks; the rebels answered with mines, boobytraps, snipers and ambushes. The rebels claimed that Germans in the French Foreign Legion were deserting; the French answered that Japs in the Vietnamese army were committing harakiri...
...British began reinforcing their Holy Land garrison (present strength: 100,000) with a view to doubling the number of troops by year's end. The rumored reason: an important Government policy decision on Palestine, due some time in January...
...Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...
Leaving their wounded bleeding on the floor inside, the defeated garrison of Cantrell-Mansfield followers filed out, hands high in the air. Under a glaring spotlight beamed on the damaged entrance, the onetime law of McMinn County squinted wearily at a jeering, taunting...