Word: garrisoning
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...wasn't a stunt; it was a natural and innocent way of bringing the gathering into proper focus. Father John Barrymore and Mother Michael Strange were divorced when Diana was seven. From seven to twelve she was entombed in a Parisian convent school. She subsequently attended the Garrison-Forest School near Baltimore, which nearly went out of business once when Father John paid her a call. She also had a go at Manhattan's Brearley and a string of other seminaries...
...patient, implacable sea a leaky boat must be constantly bailed. The Japs learned the lesson on dry land: in southeast China, where the sea of Chinese resistance still surged after more than five years. Where a Japanese soldier stood, and within the area where the comrades of his garrison could range, there was the kind of peace the Japs liked. But where no soldier stood in the country of the conquered, there was the timeless surge of reconquest...
...raiders destroyed three radio stations, 1,000 gallons of gasoline, many trucks and other military stores. They also found many a record of pre-war U.S. policy: the trucks had been made in the U.S., the gasoline containers bore the trade-mark of a U.S. refiner, the Jap garrison's corned beef had a U.S. label on the cans. Makin after the raid looked better to Colonel Carlson. Said he: "It was a sight to see. There were dead Japs all over the place...
Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit) is a 27-year-old professional screwball, who once attracted attention by offering a prize to the listener who could think up a new name for him. Now NBC is offering a $500 war bond for the best title for The Show Without a Name. A would-be actor until his parents said no, Moore turned to radio and became a successful wack. Assigned by NBC to an office with H. V. Kaltenborn, he has so far manfully resisted his urge to rearrange the pins in the pundit...
...late watches talk of home, of furloughs and women, of comrades on other fields. But the spirit that stands beside them in the darkness is the spirit of their commander: austere, 66-year-old Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief of all mobile defense and garrison troops (including air forces) in Holland, Belgium and Occupied France...