Word: outposts
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...leather collars with their hair in pigtails. Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered the unexplored land, included fierce meetings with "white bears" (grizzlies), narrow escapes in strange and unfamiliar...
Last week, on a formal visit to New Delhi. Katay accused the Viet Minh of outright aggression, bluntly reminded Nehru that "Laos was an outpost of Indian civilization when there was competition between India and China ... We look to you today for help." In effect, he was challenging Nehru to invoke his old promise from Ho Chi Minh. Nehru simply said: "It's for the people of Laos to solve their own problems, not for others to interfere too much," and offered to help arrange further negotiations between the legal government and the Red interlopers...
...biggest (and crassest) lapel-clutch introductions a film ever had-Bogart, in clerical black, is seen staggering on-camera across the wastes of up-country China, a backward look of terror on his face and a wicked-looking .45 in his hand. He soon comes to a mission outpost, where he is welcomed as the new man the bishop promised to send. And yet, as the doctor's wife (Agnes Moorehead) prattles to her husband (E. G. Marshall), "there seems to be so much in him that wasn't intended to be a priest." One look at Bogart...
...vital part of the broadening sphere of the Observatory, it now participates in a cooperative plan with five other institutions to share the expense of maintaining an outpost in Bloemfontein, South Africa, one of the prize viewing locations in the Southern Hemisphere.A member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston which maintained the facilities during war, prepares reflector from Pyrex glass...
...Gaza strip is a geographic absurdity perpetuated by hate and pride. Ever since Israel's warriors swept south in 1948 to the Negeb desert, Gaza has stood as a defiant outpost in which Egyptian soldiers held out against Zion to the day of armistice. All around the 5-by-25-mile sand strip, a stealthy border war has since been waged, and blood spilled almost nightly...