Word: citadel
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London, long a Labor field, is now a socialist citadel: 22 of its 28 boroughs. 1,029 of its 1,377 councilors are Labor. Most of the smaller towns and blitzed areas went the same way. Some of the large provincial cities (e.g., Manchester, Liverpool) stayed Tory, but usually in the face of Labor gains. In traditionally Tory Birmingham, Labor nosed out the Conservatives by a single seat...
...against tougher competition in 1931. His Portrait of J. Stogdell Stokes succeeded in looking stodgy without being academic. Honorable mentions included Samuel Rosenberg's geometric portrait of Israel; O. Louis Guglielmi's The River, featuring hind views of three girls looking at the water, and The Quarantined Citadel, by onetime Etonian Philip Evergood. Evergood describes Citadel as "a vicious painting which represents an imaginary island where military aggressors are dumped so that they can play...
...bolt position in the center of their line, the Japs had the ancient citadel of Shuri, visited by Commodore Perry in 1853. In Shuri castle, biggest and stoutest structure on the island, the Ryukyu kings had lived before the Japs took over, a quarter-century after Perry's visit. Last week a U.S. battleship scored 25 direct hits on the castle, but the shells bounced off, said an observer, like "rubber balls...
...peacetime enjoy social life at their California ranch and handsome farm at Hamilton, Mass. In moments of ease Patton mixes a heady conversational cocktail of military erudition that might range from the 6th Century B.C. precepts of Sun Tzu to the tactics by which George Patton took the citadel at Metz...
...Planes Came. With daylight came U.S. planes - 1,300 in direct support, others chopping at Nazi rear communications. Jülich fell to the Ninth Army - all but a 16th-Century citadel surrounded by a moat 20 feet deep and a wall 14 feet thick and 45 feet high. Next day the Ninth's 29th Division assaulted the cita del with 755 and flamethrowers. When the Yanks finally got in, they found a few German dead. The other defenders had run out, during the night, through a tunnel that led to the woods...