Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure was on Israel to withdraw, but also on Egypt to negotiate. Should the Egyptians refuse to accept a UNEF garrison on the shores of the Tiran Straits, the UNEF might well wind up adding a navy-a destroyer patrolling the narrows to insure for Israeli ships what Hammarskjold has affirmed as the "right of innocent passage...
...University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, and a team of Yale experts, will be published this month (Yale University; $15). Ironically, the pictures were preserved by what probably seemed to Dura's Jews to be their desecration. The commander of the city's Roman garrison, faced with the threat of an enemy attack, did his best to prepare the city against Persian siege tactics. To keep the city walls from collapsing even if they were undermined, the commander ordered the street nearest the most vulnerable wall filled with earth, heaping it up over the house roofs...
Death March. Draftee Sidney Stewart was fresh from the States and stationed in Manila when the Japs started bombing the Philippines. So civilian-minded were his fellow soldiers that they mustered for departure to the front lines in oxfords rather than combat boots. So garrison-minded were their commanders that they issued orders while the bombs were falling that ties would not be worn and officers no longer saluted. Author Stewart catches the quickening tempo of panic. As he and a buddy ordered a drink at the posh Manila Hotel bar, they heard a girl with a brittle laugh telling...
Suddenly the hillside came alive with scores of poncho-clad men, armed with guns and machetes, and charging silently toward the post. A dog barked. The sentry got off only one shot before an answering bullet caught him, but it was enough to rouse the garrison. Half-naked, the soldiers, boys of 20 or less, rushed to their battle stations and began to fire. All day long, in wave after wave, the attackers stormed the post. At nightfall, as the assailants grouped for a last charge, only the corporal, who was wounded in one leg, and a private were left...
Other Crimson qualifiers included John Liebeskin and Bill Garrison with 272; Andy Warshaw, 269; and Ron Grimm with...