Word: garrisoning
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Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...
...told the Congressmen that the U.S. would have to step in immediately with a loan of $250 million for the rehabilitation of Greece's ports, railways, bridges, for the purchase of industrial and raw materials to bolster Greece's economy, and for the support of a British garrison already there. The U.S. would not send soldiers. But the U.S., besides financial aid, must supply economic and military advice and full moral support. The Congressmen knew the alternative: expanding Russia would take over...
Titles or original poems to be considered for the Garrison Poetry Prize, as annual award of $175 made on or before April 1 by a committee from the English Department, must be left at Warren House not later than March...
Brazil. The 50,000 U.S. troops and civilians who helped garrison Brazil during the war are gone. So are the air personnel who once made Natal the world's biggest air transport base. But overalled technicians and some military personnel still keep the Brazilian air bases in good running order...
...city's population withered, but the garrison stood fast. A year ago the Communists attacked across the lake's frozen surface, were repulsed in a savage, three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...