Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commanders and troops like to see what they are doing and where they are going. They have found that when things go wrong at night, they can go "awfully wrong"-meaning that nocturnal confusion causes unnecessary casualties. Also, if the enemy has succeeded in grabbing a U.N. outpost during the night, it pays the U.N. to counterattack at dawn's early light, so as to give the burrowing Reds little or no time to dig in. And if the enemy can use night harassments to rob U.N. troops of sleep, the U.N. can return the favor by harassing...
...thousands of outpost settlements around the world, as well as in the big cities and mainline towns, TIME'S traffic department made every effort to get copies out on schedule-or, at worst, not more than 24 hours late. In some cases, this wasn't possible. In Honolulu, for instance, the late printing meant missing a regular flight to Wake Island...
...natives are very short of food, and for some time past have not had enough missionary." By irreverence, Hughes won world attention for a problem which he knew to be "very small potatoes and not many to the row." His point: to secure New Guinea as a strategic outpost of Australia's defense...
...from the free world may pass, now that Tibet is barred to them by its Chinese Communist overlords. The Swiss are now setting up a string of base camps, assembling supplies of food, rope, sleeping bags, clothing and fuel. They are thrusting their lifeline ever higher to a last outpost from which Lambert and one companion will try the final dash. The Swiss party's big hope for success this time is based on their improved "third lung" breathing equipment. Last May Lambert and his Nepalese guide had to quit because they were forced to halt every few steps...
...last month, not even Michael himself could plot with any certainty the course he had sailed over the last 40-odd years to reach the Portuguese outpost of Macao. It had included hitches in both the U.S. Army & Navy, a job as a bartender in Shanghai's notorious Blood Alley, a spell in a Japanese prison camp, numberless scrapes with the law, occasional berths as ship's officer on vessels hard up for mariners, and long years as a soldier of fortune in oriental ports. When he hit Macao three weeks ago, Portuguese authorities took one look...