Word: garrisoning
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...west, in Burma, five Japanese divisions had been destroyed, but five remained. They were all but cut off, and likely to be left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...
...hills west and northwest of the city the Germans hurled tanks and planes into a drive to reach their trapped garrison. They slashed more than halfway through the 30-mile-wide ring the Russians had thrown around the ancient capital, captured Esztergom, riverside anchor of the Red Army front south of the Danube. They were taking desperate chances, for north of the river the Russians were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary...
MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...British Prime Minister's mind . . . is now plainly in a phase of extreme reaction. . . . His ideology, picked up in the garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home, and the conversation of wealthy, conservative households, is a pitiful jumble of nonsense. . . . He has served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before we forget the debt we owe him. His last associations with the various European royalties who share his belief in the invincible snobbishness of mankind . . . are his final farewell to human confidence...
...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...