Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week that picture was dark and doubtful. Along the east-west Lunghai Railway the government suffered its great est loss. Twenty thousand Communists under General Cheng Keng fought their way for the second time into Loyang, a major Nationalist bastion in Honan...
...there was no Byzantine Empire to secure the southeast. Now the weak bastion of Greece and Turkey blocked the Communist road to the Middle East. In the Far East, an unsupported and economically battered China blocked the Russian advance. Some thought that Secretary of State Marshall had made a mistake in writing off China and that the U.S. position would be greatly strengthened if he frankly admitted it and promptly bolstered this traditional Asiatic flank of U.S. foreign policy...
...death marked the end of a tumultuous week at the school. The student body, mostly boys of poorer families, has long been politically conscious, took part in the turbulence from which APRA rose a quarter-century ago. Despite a recent law banishing politics from schools, it is still a bastion of Aprista influence...
...Britain, for centuries a bastion of tolerance and hospitable haven for Jews, * anti-Semitism had bloated to disturbing dimensions. Partly it was caused by events in Palestine. But, as before in Europe and in history, Jews were also being made the scapegoats for economic hardships. With increasing frequency, ordinary Britons coupled "spivs" with Jews...
...firsthand experience of war, which Ernest Hemingway has called indispensable to the greatest writers, awaited Tolstoy at the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He commanded a battery of guns at the Fourth Bastion, most exposed point in the city's defenses. Tolstoy wrote the first of his Sevastopol Sketches in a dugout under bombardment. At first he liked the whole thing: "The constant charm of danger, observing the soldiers . . . are so agreeable that I do not wish to leave here. . . ." But before the siege was over he changed his mind. Though he hated physical violence, he beat...