Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across a fertile, oil-soaked chunk of Rumania and then wandered to the northwest along the Carpathians. On the wrong side of this front, isolated clusters of German troops continued to fight. Moscow reported that five Nazi divisions had been destroyed above Odessa. At Tarnopol the embattled garrison was being whittled down. In the forests near Skala ("Rock") on the middle Dniester, Red units battled the detachments of 15 Nazi divisions...
...President Higinio Morinigo had long teetered on the fence between Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
...every direction "stretched the illimitable forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...
...sins of the Führer should not be visited on his children, protested "obliteration" bombing of German cities. Said they: "Christian people should . . . examine themselves concerning their participation in this carnival of death." The signers included: Pastors Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes; ex-Editor (the Nation) Oswald Garrison Villard...
...last week Allied flyers reported that all Jap ships had left, that Jap planes were no longer in the area in any strength. Although the stranded Jap garrison would no doubt resist to the bloody end, Rabaul lay wide-open to an amphibious invasion...