Word: bastion
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Brigham's restaurant abandoned its 24-hour policy, leaving the Store 24 as the last bastion for Harvard Square nighthawks...
...reputation of Harvard University as a bastion of Western cultural and intellectual tradition is especially strong in the emerging African elites. But many in that group mistrust the West because of the years of European colonialism, the long period of total support by the West of white supremacy in South Africa, and the continuing refusal to back U.N. sanctions against South Africa. Seen in this context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans...
...Bertagna, Canterbury treasurer and women's hockey coach, proposed Worsley for membership in the previously all-male bastion. "She's a Harvard goaltender, and that's the only prerequisite for membership," says Bertagna. "Besides, she has to go through the same pain, pressure, and responsibility that we faced in the twines...
FROM BELIEVING THAT the opposition derived from either anachronistic religious fanaticism or heathen communism and that the Shah was the last remaining bastion holding both those forces back from the oil fields, the American press and public opinion had only a very short leap to make in advocating all-out support for the Shah. The New York Times concluded that "political change is clearly overdue," but ignored the depth of opposition when it called for support of the Shah because his modernization program best suited the Times's vision of Iran's needs. The Christian Science Monitor went even further...
...nation's largest commodities exchange, a market that has become to the late '70s what the stock market used to be to the late '60s: a heady, go-go whirl that amounted to some $730 billion last year. Intones one Chicago broker: "This is the last bastion of pure capitalism in the world...