Word: garrisoning
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...wave of Unitarianism then sweeping Boston, the high-spired church overlooking the Common got to be known as "Brimstone Corner" because of the gunpowder that was stored in its basement during the War of 1812. The fiery preaching that echoed there helped keep the nickname alive; William Lloyd Garrison gave his first public address against slavery at Park Street; Moody and Sankey led revivals there; Henry Ward Beecher preached there and his brother Edward was its pastor...
...peace treaty with Japan, including an arrangement for American forces to garrison the country until it can protect itself...
...little Prince Charles watched his grandfather, King George VI, present new colors to the Coldstream Guards, did his best to come to attention afterwards while the King took the salute. In Malta, photographers snapped a carefree picture of Charles's parents, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, leading a garrison ball. At the Royal Navy College, Dartmouth, Princess Margaret handed out end-of-term prizes, later tested the aplomb of a few cadets in a round of Paul Jones dances...
When the Chinese Communist armies in Korea began to run into trouble a few weeks ago, rumors got around that the Russians were building up troop concentrations on Sakhalin. Whether based on fact or not, the rumors made the U.S. high command sharply conscious that Japan's occupation garrison had been shipped to Korea, leaving the islands virtually defenseless on the ground. A Russian invasion of Japan from Sakhalin could outflank and trap U.N. forces in Korea...
...Whom, the South regarded as the "Francis Marion of the Confederacy." Morgan once marched his men 100 miles across the rugged Cumberland Mountains to strike at a federal garrison in Kentucky, destroyed a huge pile of stores...