Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When soldiers from the local garrison moved in, the miners fought back with rifles and dynamite. Next day, when army reinforcements arrived, the miners blew up the hall, took to the hills. In the fighting, 40 were killed, 100 wounded...
...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...
...home province of Kwangsi. To the east, units of one-eyed Red General Liu Po-cheng's armies moved into the towns of Nanping and Shahsien in Fukien province, putting Communist vanguards within 300 miles of the refugee Nationalist capital in Canton. In Canton, Garrison Commander Yeh Shao issued a proclamation declaring the city to be in a state of war, advised citizens who could to return to their native villages. One member of the legislative yuan criticized Yeh. "It is bad to talk like this," he said. "If we think the Communists may take Canton, they...
...floundering Greek army seemed to have bogged down in a defensive war, wasted men to garrison towns against Communist hit & run attacks. The government commanders needed to be shaken out of lethargy, timidity, bickering, and antiquated tactical ideas. By unrelenting pressure, Van Fleet has changed their ways...
...Chinese Communist troops marched toward Shanghai last week, an advance column of rumors invaded the panicky city and its press. The harried commander of Shanghai's Nationalist garrison rushed into print with a censorship order that brought a snicker even from the censored newsmen. Stated Regulation No. 6: "Except [for] the news released by this headquarters, all ... newspapers and news agencies are forbidden to publish other inaccurate war news...