Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captured Okinawa in the bloodiest engagement of the Pacific, and for four years the despondency of devastation settled over the island. On its fields, supplies-stockpiled for an invasion of Japan that never happened-moldered and rotted. Okinawa became "the junkyard of the Pacific," the outpost of the outcasts, the place where old jeeps and obsolete colonels went to rust away under the gentle melancholy of the August moon...
...India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this outpost as an advance base for Japanese air patrols. As naval strategists they calculated that the attack would draw out the last remnant of the U.S. fleet-including those annoying U.S. flattops that had escaped the Pearl Harbor massacre...
...Then in a lecture on the Reformation .to the Catholic Evidence Guild he bore down too heavily on the corruption of the medieval Catholic clergy. "I was summoned to interview the Vicar-General, who told me, with a searching look, that I was being transferred to 'the farthest outpost of the diocese...
...first-rate draftsman and a master of watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last...
Relegation to an outpost "outside the community of scholars" by the rest of the academic world is a severe judgment on a University. The Seattle school's administrators should take the message to heart and return their university to "its rightful and respected position in the academic world...