Word: garrisoning
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...GARRISON Superintendent Yellowstone National Park Gardiner, Mont...
...propaganda campaign are weird. In recent months, newspapers and magazines have rejoiced over the behavior of the "good 8th Company on Nanking Road," an army detachment on garrison duty in the heart of wicked Shanghai. These heroes have preserved their Communist purity for 14 long years in the face of innumerable temptations by bourgeois capitalist devils. When "professional loafers" tried to bribe them with wads of banknotes, the money was spurned; when "overdressed women accosted them on the street, the soldiers ordered them away." One soldier found a penny and promptly turned it over to the company's political...
...story of its shameful deeds toward us." A well-to-do New York white woman, Mary White Ovington, covered that speech for the New York Evening Post, with other liberals conceived the idea of a national biracial conference on the Negro question. She helped persuade Post Publisher Oswald Garrison Villard, who later edited the Nation for 15 years, to write a "Call to Action" that led directly to the formation of the N.A.A.C.P. Among those who issued the call on Lincoln's Birthday 1909 were Professor John Dewey, William Lloyd Garrison, Jane Addams, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Lincoln...
...attempt made more headlines than it did progress. Cantave's men took two tiny peasant villages, Meyac and Dérac. From there the invasion force pushed on to Fort Liberté. The garrison fired on the invaders, and the invaders fired back. After hours of sporadic gunplay, the invaders retreated into the hills, perhaps to fight another...
...Independence-minded folk singers of the 1730s wrote anti-British songs so "seditious" that Governor William Cosby of New York felt called upon to stage a public song burning. In the America that Walt Whitman heard singing, New Hampshire's Hutchinson Family drew abolitionist admirers like William Lloyd Garrison. Today's folk singers are lyrically lashing out at everything from nuclear fallout (What Have They Done to the Rain?) and the American Medical Association ("We really love to stitch/ The diseases of the rich"), to direct-digit dialing ("560 million, 900,000 more, 137, extension...