Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hero MacArthur today held General Eisenhower's assignment, he would be screaming for us to negotiate any kind of peace with Red China and pull out of the completely worthless Korean peninsula and rush every division to our really important and strategic outpost, Western Europe. But being a good soldier, Eisenhower obeys orders and stays out of party politics. All credit...
...seemed, in the first split second, nothing that any man could do to stop them. The men of the 19th were caught by surprise in scattered holes and ditches along a ridge near Chonghyon. The Chinese started their dash only 100 ft. from the 19th's most forward outpost...
...young man who felt the lure was Fernão Mendes Pinto, son of a down-at-heel nobleman. He resolved to join the army and, once in the East, switch to trading. In 1537, at the age of 28, he sailed for Goa, Portugal's main outpost in India. Before he saw Portugal again, he was to visit all the lands of Asia, to be a merchant, a pirate, a slave, an ambassador and a Jesuit novice...
...Muongs. Both belong to the Thai Federation, part of Bao Dai's Viet Nam state. Last December, while the French were fighting desperately to hold the port of Hanoi, Communist forces drove into the Thai and Muong country, pushed the French frontier guards back 100 miles to the outpost town of Lai Chau. The Communists then set about winning over Thais and Muongs...
Author Cammann was sent to a U.S. meteorological outpost in Inner Mongolia toward the end of the war. During the weeks of his stay, he took short trips in all directions from his base near a town called Shanpa to the tents and temples of the Mongols. Since he thinks they are a vanishing people, Cammann looks close...