Word: garrisoning
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...sins of the Führer should not be visited on his children, protested "obliteration" bombing of German cities. Said they: "Christian people should . . . examine themselves concerning their participation in this carnival of death." The signers included: Pastors Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes; ex-Editor (the Nation) Oswald Garrison Villard...
...last week Allied flyers reported that all Jap ships had left, that Jap planes were no longer in the area in any strength. Although the stranded Jap garrison would no doubt resist to the bloody end, Rabaul lay wide-open to an amphibious invasion...
...because Japan had withdrawn her fleet from the defense of the western Pacific area, it did not follow that the mandated islands would promptly fall. Each garrison on each isolated isle would undoubtedly fight bitterly...
This kind of spiritual guerrilla warfare has been solemnly credited with helping last summer's Jap evacuation of Kiska, in the Aleutians, after U.S. forces had mopped up the garrison on nearby Attu. A copy of the Government-owned Japan Times and Advertiser cited four "miraculous'' incidents...
...been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to Europe. Butler fired him. Cattell fought back so fiercely that his house in Garrison-on-Hudson was nicknamed Fort Defiance. Cattell's good friend, Historian Charles Beard, quit the University. Cattell sued Columbia for $125,000, finally forced it to settle...