Word: outposts
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Kenneth Roberts' picture of "the desperate Tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost...
...London's vital outpost, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's, he prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...defenses, the U. S. was doing. The U. S. was becoming banker to the world. To Argentina went $60,000,000, to Uruguay $7,500,000. (Argentines and Uruguayans three days later forgot old enmities, got together on a joint defense program- U. S. engineers swarmed over Bermuda, defense outpost, planning the 510-acre military base that will bring warplanes and battleships to the island of bicycles. The Maritime Commission, launching a merchant ship every seven days, prepared to sell the British 15 of its laid-up fleet of 64 for $3,010,800; asked bids on 24 more. Means...
...lake. Actually it is a diary of Kierkegaard's own unhappy love affair. Said he, "I am experiencing more poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...
...expeditionary force in the western desert. Knowing that Graziani had completed an advance camp 15 miles east of Sidi Bārrani, had drilled new water wells and about finished a hard-surface supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled the new outpost, road and wells. Motorized units on land engaged Italian advance units with the usual conflicting report of results. On the eastern Sudan front, British pressure by land and air was increased at Gallabat, Kassala and the roads to Italy's supply base, Gondar, in the Lake Tana region...