Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of fire as the Democrats bored in. Ex-Marine McCarthy might turn out to have something, after all; the State Department's reputation for security was none too savory. But until he could prove it, the G.O.P. was going to let Freshman McCarthy defend his own outpost...
Died. Charles A. Windolph, 98, early Congressional Medal of Honor winner, onetime cavalry private under Major General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) where he held an exposed outpost; at Lead, S.D. Promoted to sergeant on the battlefield, Windolph was in Troop H, part of two flanking detachments of the 7th Cavalry which were half destroyed while Custer and 264 troops under his direct command were annihilated...
Hope & Heart. The Chinese came to Hainan in in B.C. For centuries the island was a torrid Siberia where imperial dynasts often dumped political foes. * Between 1939 and 1945 the Japanese transformed Hainan into another kind of imperial base. On the undeveloped, malarial outpost, they established military camps, dredged a deepwater harbor at Yulin on the south coast, developed rich iron mines, built a hydroelectric plant, cement factory and fish cannery. The Japanese enterprises have deteriorated because the Hainanese lack replacement parts and maintenance skill. Hsueh is tearing down one of two arsenals and shipping it to Formosa...
Well, anyway, thanks for your excellent reporting of the preliminary scene-setting. Even in this distant outpost, it's interesting to know what...