Word: garrisoning
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Then, in ships and barges, the Jap troops came. They were not quite ready for Java proper. They swarmed into Timor, where insufficient Dutch and Australian troops had moved in with the slender garrison in Portugal's half of the island. They pushed into Bali's dozing harbors, on to the palm-fringed shores...
Born in New York, he is the only, person in Harvard history to have won both the Garrison prize in Poetry and the Bowdoin prize in prose composition. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was graduated Summa Cum Lauda. In the next year he received a Henry fellowship, a scholarship to Oxford some-what akin to the Rhodes scholarships...
...fire several rounds of ammunition at a Japanese post, so enraging the Japanese that a punitive expedition is sent out. The Chinese fall back before the soldiers, luring them on. After a futile chase, the expedition is either ambushed on its return, or the post is attacked while the garrison is depleted...
...token raid. Though Aruba and Curaçao are flyspecks on the map, their refineries are two of the largest in the world. Only last week the State Department announced that U.S. troops had been sent to garrison the islands at the invitation of The Netherlands Government...
...relentless: his was the patience, the endurance, the determination to wipe out the last Philippine defender, though it meant expenditure of a major force on the bloody, outnumbered remnants of the islands' defensive garrison. His heavy artillery, from cleverly concealed positions across Manila Bay, bombarded three of the four forts guarding the bay. His bombers braved uncannily accurate ack-ack fire to hound Bataan positions night & day. His infantry closed in, hoping for the kill...