Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal surrender of the Japanese garrison on Bali last week was one of those ceremonies the British always carry off so well...
This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...Spokesmen. The Navy proposes to garrison its outposts with 51,500 men and 4,500 officers-half the Navy's entire personnel...
...aftermath. Cities and towns have been looted and burned. The entire country has been shoved by the Soviet bulldozer some 200 miles westward across Europe. Even now the country still lies on the Red Army lines to Germany; every Polish provincial capital has a Russian garrison which lives off the land. But under the burden, life is rebuilding...
...advanced enrollees only, a 65-cent-a-day garrison ration will be paid, an "officer-type" uniform will be supplied with overcoat and shoes, and exemption from the provisions of the Selective Service Act will be guaranteed...