Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, inheritor of his father's incendiary nature, the Dickey initiation of 1891 was extremely unfortunate. (Firey radicals make such poor clubbies...
...part, only a small part, of the Dickeys' elaborate ritual required that each neophyte be branded on the arm with a lighted cigar. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison's son was duly branded...
...ordinary cases the young steer apparently rolled up his sleeve, winced, got up, and ran away. Frank Wright Garrison's '94 reaction was more extreme...
...rhetorical splendor Garrison demanded that the President act on the "six deep and savage scars," responsible for both spiritual and physical demoralization...
During the Indo-Chinese war, when the countryside was invaded by African troops and by a Foreign Legion containing more Germans than French, the garrison towns were filled with a polychromic and polyglot collection of youngsters born of every shade of father. The Eurasian population quadrupled, and a new word had to be coined: Africasians. Many girls with catholic tastes produced several children of mixed blood-each one a different color. Simply by bringing her baby for a cursory examination, a Vietnamese mother could get a "technical certificate of white race" that entitled the youngster to free care and education...