Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the worst news continued to come from Manchuria. During the week the Communists stormed and captured the critical port city of Yingkow. The Reds boasted that the garrison had gone over to their side. In beleaguered Mukden itself, freezing citizens tore down walls and rafters for firewood...
Three hours later, Major Ehrgott swung up on a borrowed horse and rode out of Komotini with 50 cavalrymen. Ehrgott, as the regulations require, was unarmed. His companions carried rifles, Bren guns and Tommy guns. Amazed inhabitants, unaccustomed to night activity by the garrison, hung out of their windows as the troop jostled...
From Cape Horn, where González ran into stormy weekend weather, it is just three days' sail to the Graham Land outpost that the Chileans belligerently call Port Sovereignty. There this week, properly furred and parkaed, González is scheduled to go ashore, inspect the little garrison, and rechristen the base Camp Bernardo O'Higgins (after the hero of Chile's War of Independence). That would be his answer to the British, who this week sent the cruiser Nigeria steaming toward the disputed waters...
...Descendant of a William Glass whose family stayed behind on Tristan in 1817, when Britain, convinced that Bonapartists could not use the island as a base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...
Reached last night, sports columnists Jerry Nason of the Boston Globe and Bill Grimes of the Record stated that their pens are cocked for Garrison, Brown, and the A.H.A. As for Garrison, Nason dubbed him the victim of being "too darn nice." His move to ease the minds of his hard-working cohorts pitched him into the middle of a storm of roaring prides, according to the sports analyst...