Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring about a planned and. phased reduction" of the number of Canadian troops on duty in Europe. Though Trudeau did not say so, the new policy contemplates a complete withdrawal of Canadian forces from Europe by 1975. After that, Canada will remain a NATO member but will not station forces permanently abroad...
...career officer who also held a command in Ghana's U.N. expeditionary force to the Congo. Under Afrifa's management, Ghana has been living frugally on an austerity budget. That is also Afrifa's personal style: he lives in a modest bungalow and drives a small station wagon...
Well, almost. The supporting actor who was playing Clive Barnes in the early New York days was considerably different from the star who plays him now. In his first few months on the job, listeners to the Times radio station WQXR were astonished to hear a London lisp on the evening news: "Thith ith Cloive Bawneth, dawnthe cvitic of the New Yawk Timeth." A put-on, many decided. But the speech defect was real. The speaker, moreover, was as straight as a line of type. After shedding his first wife of ten years, Barnes married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane...
...film this, Tim set up the camera by a stop sign on a small road that intersected perdendicularly with the highway. Tommy was stationed further down the road, within sight of Tim, who waved to him each time he wanted to start a take. Nora, wearing jeans and a Levi jacket, stood across the highway from Tim. Eric, near the camera, held the mike out towards the highway, and Phoebe and I leaned on the rented Dodge station wagon, parked behind the stop sign...
Phoebe and I sat in the station wagon, listening to the radio ("Secret Agent Man") while Tommy and Nora walked down the road going over dialogue. They walked quickly, down opposite sides of the street. Suddenly Tommy did a quick about-face. Nora followed suit. She had picked up a twig and was smoking a cigarette. They met up with Tim, and he went over the script with them...