Words beginning graduate students don't know

[W Brewer]

Of course, the military meaning of palisade (spelling checker doesn't like
my first thought, pallisade) I learned in the '50s from the Adventures of
Rin Tin Tin. I have built my own scale model of Fort Apache out of
sharpened chopsticks. Gonna look real cool under the Xmas tree this year.
Baby Jesus watched over by angels and the U.S. cavalry.

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