Word: bastions
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...Cecilia Society demands stiffer credentials of a would-be member than the upper-crustiest men's club in London. But in most of the South, as one historian has observed, noblesse oblige has yielded to bourgeoisie oblige-even at the country club, traditionally the most closely guarded bastion of upper-class Southern Waspdom. Richmond's Country Club of Virginia, once a haven for FFVs (First Families of Virginia), now has 5,600 members (family membership is $5,000, plus annual dues starting at $660) and does not demand a blue-blood test of applicants. Nowadays, as the eminent...
...Armageddon is at hand -the moment when the country's 18 million blacks, 2.3 million coloreds and 750,000 Asians would suddenly rise up against the 4.2 million whites. The whites, however, have deeply been shaken by the current violence and the realization that Africa's white bastion has at last become a theater of grave danger...
...freedom ... or in the direction of slavery." Kennedy deplored the "loss of Cuba" to the Communists and foresaw further Communist gains in Indochina. Nixon, colossally wrong as events turned out, claimed that "the civil war" had ended in Indochina and that South Viet Nam was "a strong, free bastion...
...locker room, perhaps the last defensible male bastion in journalism, has gone coed. Since the National Hockey League broke the ice last year, more and more pro teams are admitting women to the sanctuaries of sweat. It is perhaps the biggest breakthrough for female scribes since Jane Swisshelm became the first woman reporter to invade the congressional press gallery more than a century...
...Alcatraz, that erstwhile bastion of non-liberty, Independence Day will be celebrated with an RWB fireworks display...