Word: basing
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After the cold war broke out, the American, British and French zones were merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany, while the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic. But the Allies retained military authority over Berlin as well as the right to base troops and conduct military maneuvers in the Germanys...
Fowler is dazed and perhaps injured (he has cut his head somehow), and his accent is funny. When he pulls out a couple of Federal Reserve notes to pay for his ticket, his money looks dodgy. Is such stuff legal tender in San Francisco? Doubtful. But the friendly "base ballists," as they call themselves, accept him without a lot of awkward questions and give him a berth to sleep in. When he wakes up, he stays on the train, not knowing what else to do. He learns that they are headed for New York, where the Red Stockings plan...
Aoun, who commands 15,000 troops, apparently underestimated the 10,000- strong Phalangists, who not only held their own but overran a naval base, a landing strip and an army garrison held by Aoun's forces...
...with the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the end of Stalinism in the East bloc and the progress on arms control, Germans have lost that fear. Resentment, long repressed, burst into the open in 1988 when three Italian jets collided during an air show at the U.S. Ramstein air base, killing 70 spectators and pilots. Although the accident had little to do with U.S. military operations, it galvanized public protests against ubiquitous and often frightening low-level flight training by NATO fighters...
Abstract expressionism, that image-destroying, paint-flinging whirlwind, held sway as America's -- and modernism's -- dominant style during the 1940s and '50s. Though its base was New York City, the abstract-expressionist ethos pervaded every artistic center in the U.S., including the San Francisco Bay area. There, during the late '40s, a flourishing local school had been influenced by the forceful presence of artist-teachers Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko...