Word: outpost
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...Strangers. Once, when Washington itself was only a malarial outpost on the banks of the Potomac, Virginia society considered the Government its own social corral. The entire U.S. Government consisted of less than 50 officials, and few were strangers to Virginia's hostesses. The ladies called familiarly at the White House, and Dolly Madison, with bird-of-paradise feathers nodding from her famed turbans, drove through the muddy streets to return the calls...
Happy Jeep. Wearing his "lucky boots" and a silver-mounted .45 automatic, Costa Rica's Provisional President José Figueres jeeped happily around inspecting his outpost troops. With him rode President-elect Otilio Ulate. The foreign threat had given Figueres' faltering junta a popularity unknown since last spring's civil...
...cases of some career men, with ill-concealed grins. In her muscular attempt to save face, the U.S.S.R. was abandoning two excellent listening posts, one in San Francisco and one in New York. The U.S. was losing next to nothing: merely the privilege of maintaining an isolated consular outpost in Vladivostok and of endless negotiation for a second consulate in Leningrad...
...more than three months, until General Wladyslaw Anders' Poles finally took it on May 18, 1944, Monte Cassino had been a highly effective German army outpost, battered by Allied shells and bombs. Almost as soon as the Germans were driven out, the monks began building again. They heard reports of great collections being taken up in the U.S.,* but to date have received only occasional Italian funds. Meanwhile, the monks live in the undestroyed 10% of their Abbey while they try to rebuild the rest...
...very last outpost of fine, imaginative illustration in America is the comic strip. That's where all the great illustrators...