Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, Powdermilk Bagels, the brand that gives shy New Yorkers the strength to jump over subway turnstiles, was not among the sponsors. Garrison Keillor, the wandering Minnesota minstrel whose Prairie Home Companion variety show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called Lake Wobegon, says he has put shyness behind him. Just as well. Keillor, whose new American Radio Company of the Air fills the old P.H.C. Saturday-evening slot (6 to 8 p.m. EST), is now a New Yorker himself, an unstrained and wildly germinating seed in the Big Applesauce. Like...
Rebels abandoned the government television station and Villamor air base, which they had seized before dawn, and hundreds of mutinous marines marched out of Fort Bonifacio, their home garrison...
...batallion--which Ryan said was specially trained by U.S. forces--comandeered the local schoolhouse as a garrison and captured Manuel Cartagena, the former mayor of San Jose Las Flores who visited Cambridge last spring...
Nonetheless, Britain refused to reduce its 2,500-man garrison in the Falklands. And the best either side could do on the sovereignty issue was to agree not to tackle the problem just yet. But the omens are good for their next meeting, at which they expect to renew diplomatic ties: they will reconvene on Valentine...
Conservative John Flanagan from West Roxbury, son of District Attorney Newman Flanagan, with 10.9 percent; Joseph Casper from South Boston, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, with 8.2 percent; and Althea Garrison from Dorchester with 4 percent...