Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...
Suddenly, out of the calling dark, a burst of bullets smashed into the outpost. Five men crumbled and died. The sixth, badly wounded, lurched down the hill to warn Captain Sadek's garrison below. He never made...
Almost as soon as Father Roget reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists...
...nuclear weapon," said the white paper, "may discourage overt armed intervention by the Communist powers, such as occurred in Korea . . . but equally, it may encourage the indirect approach through infiltration and subversion." Britain is creating a mobile strategic reserve, ready to be flown from England to any new threatened outpost. The total cost and size of the British army will be substantially reduced...
Cold Cold War. The Argentine flotilla set out from Buenos Aires in mid-December to carry supplies and men to Argentina's eight permanent antarctic outposts, and to bring back the men whose one-year tours of polar duty were done. On the shore of a bay at 78° south, 39° west, the expedition built a ninth year-round outpost-a weather station-and left 20 men to staff it. Buenos Aires claimed that it was the southernmost permanent base in the antarctic...