Word: garrisoned
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...curtain rises upon the sempiternal comedy of youth, written with never-flagging genius, played with never-failing charm. God bless the old Club and the old days--they were so full of wholesome pleasures.'" --Lloyd M. Garrison, Class...
...murders. All the arms stowed away, Shannon and company--a small international band of warriors-for-pay bound by shared danger, shared skill, and shared thirst for beer--set sail aboard a trawler for Zangaro. They land late at night, eliminate a sentry or two, and then storm a garrison in a violent display of pyrotechnics. Shortly afterwards, justice triumphs--to say more would give the ending away, and probably reintroduce this question of politics...
...held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador William Sullivan and some 100 embassy employees. Since then the ambassador had left, dependents had been sent home, and the garrison staff that remained had grown accustomed to angry commotion in the streets...
Elsewhere, the guerrillas had some temporary successes. They fomented an insurrection in the garrison of Santa Ana, the country's second largest city; an army captain and 80 soldiers defected to the guerrillas. Heavy fighting continued for days, as leftist troops penetrated several provincial cities before being thrown back. They seized San Francisco Gotera, the capital of eastern Morazan department, and it took government troops three days to break the cordon around the city and recapture...
...effort to stop the "witch hunt," Barkouras last February told the Rev. Gene Garrison, a Baptist minister and close friend of Boren's, that he was prepared to expose Delaporte and Boren as homosexuals. In Boren's case, it was an old charge-and one that he denied during his Senate campaign by publicly swearing, on a white-bound Bible, that he was heterosexual. Barkouras took no further action, but a few weeks later Jack Anthony, 28, an heir to an Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing...