Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austria, was luncheon guest of honor at the Overseas Press Club. There he accepted a bouquet and a buss from nine-year-old Emmi Mattesich, all dressed up in her best Austrian costume. In a serious mood, Figl told reporters: "We in central Europe today are the easternmost outpost of the free world and we are determined to defend this bastion. To achieve this we must rely upon the moral and material help of the free world . . . until we are again in possession of all the natural resources of our country. It is not our fault that we were robbed...
Director Spiegel says, however, that the number registered is actually very little indication of the number who use the building, since the Center is the International Student Association's sole outpost, and serves numerous Boston colleges. He claims that visits to the Center last year totaled over...
...McCarthyism, Neutralism, Liberalism, Hooverism, Syndicalism, Pacifism, Militarism, and so on must be added another, McGeorge Bundyism. Soon there may be no belief, attitude, or mode of expression that has not been fliply disposed of by its classification as an ism. Perhaps a similar fate may befall even that last outpost of good sense, the Saturday Evening Post itself...
...August day in 1918, Captain Robert Porter Patterson, 306th Infantry, U.S.A., led a patrol into the German lines in France, surprised and wiped out an enemy outpost, killed several men in a second one, and then, singlehanded, covered his patrol's retreat. That day won him the Distinguished Service Cross. Before his death at 60, in the Elizabeth air crash last week (see above), the nation was to pay him many another tribute. For Bob Patterson never stopped fighting...
...called Pag-asa (Tagalog for hope), he toured the islands, dropping in unannounced on one army outpost after another; in regions Pag-asa could not reach, he traveled by car or carabao cart. He gave the soldiers better food, better quarters, promise of advancement. At one post he went out with a patrol to do a little Huk-shooting himself, and handed a battlefield commission to a sergeant who bagged three. At another post he found soldiers sleeping without blankets...