Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of years, maybe quite a few, there would be inevitably a sense of unreality about the functions they would discharge as members of this House." No one seemed anxious to discuss the possibility of applications from 20 other British colonies. Gambia, a small British outpost in West Africa, has already announced that it, too, would like to send representatives to Westminster...
...clock most of the University offices were shut so that employees could get home before the roads closed. Lamont Library shut its doors for the same reason, and Widener became the only outpost of learning to remain in operation...
...Korea in 1950, the nation in which the crime is committed can hardly exercise effective jurisdiction even if it has the apparent right. And how, if not by the U.S. military, can an armed forces civilian dependent or employee be tried for a crime committed at some such remote outpost as Thule in Greenland, where the Danish government holds title but has none of the local machinery for exercising judicial control...
...facing the U. S. is to makes the continuing American Revolution of political democracy and a broad division of wealth meaningful to the rest of the world. This entails not mere talk--but showing willingness to come to an understanding with Red China, helping to make Formosa a democratic outpost, stepping up an information program in Africa, opposing colonialism clearly and publicly, and working for an eventual abolition of war itself...
...West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain on Outer Mongolia, but counted on this barren Soviet outpost's not getting enough votes...