Word: garrisoned
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...beginning of the first century A.D. Evidence of Belgic settlement is still subject to doubt, but the character of the Roman town is fairly well understood. The town's fourth century A.D. Roman burial ground produced evidence, substantiated by other data of the 1969 season, to suggest that a garrison of foreign soldiers, distinct from the rest of the population, defended late Roman Winchester...
...states' principal port; from there, smugglers have long done a lucrative business in carrying gold, perfumes and Swiss watches to India. Sharjah (pop. 38,000) is so poor that its chief source of income (about $257,000 a year) used to be selling fresh water to the British garrison. Ajman (pop. 4,000), with no oil and only a primitive fishing industry, survives primarily by selling stamps to philatelists of the world, who are charmed by Arab postage bearing the images of the Kennedy brothers, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth...
This is the one period of Napoleon's life (except, presumably, his conception) that could be filmed on a small budget; the war is over, thus effecting a great economy in props and stunt riders; all that is needed is a smallish garrison of redcoats, a brace of cameo parts (filled, with steely and rather contemptuous panache, by Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud), one or two sexual objects, a Napoleon, some rocks for the escape attempt and a sunset or two to be glowered at from cliff tops. Once these were assembled, Director Fielder Cook...
...result is schematic tedium. Napoleon (played by English Actor Kenneth Haigh) has nothing to do, and the script leaves him nothing to say or think. The plot, such as it is, consists of four strands: the foiled escape; the efforts of the garrison commander (Richardson) to move his prisoner from a damp villa to an even damper one; a couple of perfunctory sexual bouts by Napoleon with a married woman (Billie Whitelaw) and a 17-year-old groupie; and some dotty politicking (sample: "I want Vienna!") with Lord Sissal, who is making a deal to restore Napoleon to France...
...Griese proved no match for the Cowboys' Roger Staubach. Griese, who gave up a costly fumble and an interception, was stymied at every turn by the Cowboys' tenacious Doomsday Defense. Staubach, meanwhile, piloted the Cowboys' ball-control offense to perfection. Sending Running Backs Thomas, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill through holes as broad as a boulevard, he set up a pair of neatly executed scoring passes. Final score: Dallas 24, Miami...