Word: outpost
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...only) theatrical performance ever seen in Northwestern Australia. This was a play acted by naval personnel for the entertainment of the ship's company of the Beagle which called at Port Essington in 1839. Aboard the Beagle was Charles Darwin who gave his name to another United Nations outpost...
...found a captain and a soldier in a jeep taking breakfast to an outpost of four soldiers five miles away. "I think," said the General, "he should have been inspecting his command and had that task accomplished by one of the cooks...
...branches of the Overseas Outpost Bureau (chief: Harold K. Guinzburg, owner of Viking Press) are the eyes, ears and distributing agents for the Overseas Branch. Most of them are just getting into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
...Japanese had taken strong offensive steps, great risks, with a threefold purpose of establishing: 1) a defensive outpost;* 2) a base threatening potential supply routes to Russia's eastern frontier; 3) the first step on a stairway'that might lead to large-scale offensive action against the continental...
Premier Tojo went on to recommend India's cooperation in the Sphere: "Since all the outpost bases of the British Empire for defense of India are in the possession of Japan, the golden opportunity is offered to the Indian people to rise and obtain their liberty. . . ." Premier Tojo suggested that the Indian people eject British and American troops from India. "As long as [they] remain, Japan is inflexibly determined to annihilate them...