Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled the antagonistic Arabs and Jews with rare justice and creativity. Later, in such philosophical works as Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy, he used his same mediating skills in an attempt to reconcile the divergence...
After all. the Times's small outpost editions in Paris and Los Angeles were still going. And 60 U.S. papers subscribe to Reston's column as part of the Times's syndicate service. So with his usual square-jawed Scots honesty. Reston sat down to write a column on the subject that interested him most...
...JAMAICA. This, one of the most variegated islands in the Caribbean, and one of the most scenically spectacular in the world, has been an outpost of British culture for some 300 years, and its English tradition has paid off in the political sophistication and orderly ease with which the Jamaicans have taken to their present status as independent members of the British Commonwealth...
...lines were, or even whether the Reds were really withdrawing. Indian patrolling apparently had been stopped, and even aerial reconnaissance ruled out, for fear of Chinese retaliation. And this despite the fact that China had violated its "ceasefire" at least once: a Red patrol opened up on an Indian outpost, killing three soldiers and wounding four more...
Farther to the north-the government outpost of Phuoc Chau-the Reds bit off more than they could handle. It was 3 a.m. when the Viet Cong opened up with a mortar barrage on the badly outnumbered garrison, which was there mainly to protect peasants in a nearby valley who had been paying forced tribute to the Reds. Supported by machine guns, the Communists stormed the barbed-wire perimeter, but were thrown back by the determined fire of the government forces...