Word: outposts
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During the 1970s, American trade with Asia passed that of trade with Europe, and the gap of Asian trade over European trade continued to grow. The American Embassy in Tokyo became America's largest overseas outpost. Historically the 1970s may well be known as the beginning of the Pacific Century...
...Scott, who had served as TIME'S Saigon bureau chief from 1972 to 1974, the journey was both an exciting new adventure and an exercise in nostalgia. He revisited the magazine's old outpost at Villa No. 10 of Phnom-Penh's Samarki Hotel, where he had spent many a week monitoring the war. There, he says, "I found a shambles of broken glass, overturned furniture and mangled typewriters." The scene stirred memories for Scott: "I recalled that on the last night of U.S. bombing in Cambodia, the windows of the old hotel were rattling as usual...
...majestic ivory mesa artificially painted onto the national landscape by men named Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohr, Feynman, Kistiakowsky, Szilard and Fuchs. "At great expense, we have gathered on this mesa the largest collection of crackpots ever seen," General Leslie R. Groves told his assembled officers at the remote outpost in the New Mexico wilderness during the darkest days of World War II. "And it's your job to keep them happy...
...this rural outpost of New York City--the spirit, however, is more New Jersey than Brooklyn--Wagner has assembled a dedicated basketball following after a 21-7 season last year. Undefeated after three games this year, Wagner offers a most unhospitable welcome to visiting teams...
Across the street, the St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church community center is falling apart. There was a fire last year at this outpost of Roslindale's new Greek-American community; the walls are wood where they should be concrete; the concrete is peeling faster than the congregation is repairing. Inside the community center basement there is a small snack shop and about 30 tables covered in light blue grease cloths. The turnout is much smaller than it should be a couple of weeks before the election. About 45 Greek-Americans are sitting at the tables, chatting uniformly in Greek...