Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range fight between Union cavalry and a Confederate outpost in Virginia during the winter...
...known such general instability and discontent. And never had Mary herself sunk so low in her own esteem. Her handsome husband, after perfunctorily doing his duty in the hope of providing England with a Catholic heir, walked out on her when she proved barren. Calais, England's proud outpost in France, fell to the French. Ill and miserable, she found that her last days were to be her worst, for it was on her deathbed that the Privy Council forced her to name as her successor the detested Protestant Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn...
World-circling Vice President Richard Nixon roared into Hong Kong with an escort of twelve Royal Air Force Vampire jets. Hong Kong roared back with a 19-gun salute. Later, in a police outpost only 200 yards from the Hong Kong-Red China border, the Vice President spotted a Communist flag flapping above the village of Sha Tau Kok. Nixon wanted to cross over to the village for a quick look-see, but his guides discouraged...
When their ammunition was exhausted and their outpost surrounded by Communist soldiers, the Americans "played dead" at Skinner's order. The pretense succeeded...
...symbol of his city's will to be free, and of his nation's will to unite. He stood where worlds collide, and was not dwarfed; he gazed down the cannon's throat and refused to be afraid. West Berlin is still a far-flung outpost, tempest-lashed in a Red sea. Cold war is its way of life and the Iron Curtain its backyard fence, yet in five years as mayor, Reuter refused to accept his city as an island. "Call it a spearhead," he said with a faint grin, and by his courage he made...