Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Russian settlers founded an outpost on the Pacific Coast in 1860, they named it "Ruler of the East," partly to taunt the Chinese. The magnificent harbor was the choicest item in a territorial package that Alexander II had wrested from the politically declining and militarily impotent Manchu rulers of China in one-sided frontier adjustments in the mid-19th century...
Paterson became what Norwood calls "a Wild West outpost of industrialism." While most American cities developed and began their early growth as commercial centers, producing civic-minded merchants and opulent monuments, Paterson never found benefactors among its industrialists. It was merely a place to house the workers who ran the silk factories, and the industrialists fought every attempt to improve or beautify the town. Jacob Rogers of Rogers Locomotives declined to donate a small patch of land for the city hospital. "I don't owe anything to Paterson," he said...
...Nixon Administration saw the Allende regime as more of a threat than Cuba to the hemisphere. The White House feared that Chile would serve as a base for South America's revolutionary left as well as a convenient outpost for the Soviet Union. So many Marxist activists were pouring in from Cuba, Czechoslovakia and China that a special team of CIA clerks was dispatched to Chile to start indexing thousands of cards on their activities. Publicly, Henry Kissinger warned of the domino effect in Latin America. If Communism could find a secure berth in Chile, it would be encouraged...
...most admirable. That position must be awarded to Private Meek, a character modeled on Shaw's great friend, Lawrence of Arabia, and the only character who seems to have any control over his surroundings. While those around him speechify and sermonize, he runs the army outpost with superhuman efficiency and good nature. His totally incompetent commanding officer pays him what sounds like Shaw's ultimate compliment: "I see this man Meek doing everything that is natural to a complete man." Meek has found what the Patient has begun to search for: the satisfying responsibilities of a useful job with none...
...stifled by her mother's overweening care, allows herself to be kidnapped by her sexy new "nurse" and a smooth-talking preacher-turned-burglar, named, respectively, Sweetie and Popsy. The three set out in quest of "real life" and a good time, taking up residence near a British imperial outpost in some unidentified desert land. The Patient's mother eventually catches up with them but fails to recognize her daughter now disguised as a native servant girl and glowing with health...