Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after midnight, the Reds hit Cai Nuoc directly. Pouring mortar shells and recoilless rifle fire in the perimeter system of defensive bunkers, the Viet Cong breached the front gate of the city's major outpost, ran from bunker to bunker lobbing in grenades and shooting the defenders in the back. The fight lasted for only 35 minutes, but the Reds occupied the town for the next 17 hours. It was a bloodbath. When reinforcements finally appeared, they found a heap of 50 mutilated bodies, including women and children, which the Reds had set afire...
...years, he has been foraging information behind the Nazi lines, living on scraps and courage. Vengeance sustains him too, for at twelve, gaunt and pale, his whole reason for choosing this frightening life is to make the enemy pay for murdering his family. Arriving finally at a Russian outpost, Ivan (Kolya Burlaiev) is brought before a young lieutenant. He refuses to identify himself, insisting arrogantly that the officer "call up HQ and tell them that Bondarev is here." But after a warm bath, and after he has painstakingly penciled his intelligence report, he falls asleep; the lieutenant tenderly picks...
...word and deed the valiant and unflagging defender, for us all, of an outpost of freedom...
Brandt's degree came as no surprise after his October lectures on "The Ordeal of Coexistence." In today's ceremony Pusey appropriately called him "the valiant and unflagging defender, for us all, of an outpost of freedom...
European medicine and surgery, for all their shortcomings, were still the world's best until the 1930s. and an American who aspired to greatness in surgery went to Europe for training. The U.S. remained a medical outpost. Its own great man was Johns Hopkins University's William S. Halsted (1852-1922), who nurtured a frontiersman's egalitarian ideas: residents in surgery (M.D.s who have finished their internship and are in specialist training) should be encouraged to use both their hands and their heads. The most brilliant product of Halsted's revolutionary residency system was the great...