Words beginning graduate students don't know

Sat Oct 12 17:54:31 UTC 2013

Thank you. I know I had a hazy memory of some TV show involving cavalry or something from the fifties, and couldn't quite retrieve it.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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> 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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