Word: encampment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where U.S. troops encamp overseas for any length of time, two things often occur: coveted, cut-rate PX goods appear in the local black market, and the American boys find their way into the hearts of the local girls. South Korea, with its 50,000 G.I.s, is no exception: some $90,000 in U.S. goods vanishes monthly into Korea's flourishing black market, and in Korea no fewer than 575 Korean girls are wives of U.S. servicemen...
...constitutional question was arguable. Historians could and did cite numerous precedents for almost unlimited presidential powers in an emergency. But there was an obvious difference between sending a few ships to squash the Barbary pirates in 1802 and figuring on sending perhaps eight divisions of U.S. troops to encamp more or less permanently in Europe. Such action, based on last month's Brussels agreement (which the Senate had never been asked to approve), was in fact a drastic phase of far-reaching and brand-new national policy...
Twenty New Haven moppets will invade Lowell House this afternoon and encamp for the night...