Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they receive Wehrmacht pay and equal allowances for dependents...
...Bhamo (bypassed by the Mars Force), a Japanese suicide garrison had had enough after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
...British Prime Minister's mind . . . is now plainly in a phase of extreme reaction. . . . His ideology, picked up in the garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home, and the conversation of wealthy, conservative households, is a pitiful jumble of nonsense. . . . He has served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before we forget the debt we owe him. His last associations with the various European royalties who share his belief in the invincible snobbishness of mankind . . . are his final farewell to human confidence...
...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...