Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married Wall Street Attorney Harrison Tweed, returned to the Social Register and determined to make a lady of Diana. The girl was sent to Miss Hewitt's Classes (where "the Astors and Vanderbilts always voted for each other in class elections"), to the Brearley School and to Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note in her dress. "Sometimes," says Diana, recalling her mother's Grade Square duplex...
...though they had fought hard and bitterly for their independence from France, they knew that their best chance of help lay in friendship with France. But how could they be friendly toward France so long as the war in Algeria fans fanatical Arab hatred, gives France the excuse to garrison 80,000 French troops in Morocco, 30,000 in Tunisia, and keeps the top Algerian rebel leaders in Paris' Santé prison...
Named to the Executive Board were: Allerton J. Cushman '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Daniel H. Garrison '59, of Kirkland House and Mason, Mich.; Robert Jordan '58, of Eliot House and New York City; Thomas Lumbard '58, of Kirkland House and New York City; Phillip McCoy '59, of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kan.; Peter Salisbury '58, of Adams House and Dearborn, Mich.; William S. Talbot '59, of Kirkland House and Williamstown; John Washburn '59, of Lowell House and Tryon, N.C.; and Elisabeth Nelson '58, of Saville House and Saugus...
Under Gaza's pale minarets and scraggly date palms, locally recruited Arab police and Israeli constables patrol in pairs, distinguishable from each other in their air-force-blue uniforms only because the Arab wears a beret, the Israeli a garrison cap. But while the persistent Israelis clean up the towns and modernize the farms, the inhabitants of much-conquered Gaza wait warily. Said one, when asked last week for his view of Gaza's future: "Tell me who is going to be our master, and I'll tell you what I think...
...Germans are set to wipe out the null British garrison on the Greek isle of Kheros. The Germans control the air by day and the British the sea by night. Unless the British can silence a German battery on the neighboring isle of Navarone, nothing can save the Kheros garrison. Five men are selected to sail a caique under the cliffs by night, scale them, and blow up the German guns. Largely because the five are led by a man so tough and tight-lipped that he would make Bulldog Drummond seem like a pacifist balletomane, they pull off this...