Word: citadel
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...Boston Redevelopment Authority Monday captured a major fortified citadel that had been occupied by North Harvard urban renewal opponents but only after last-ditch resistance erupted into a bitter melee in which 12 people were arrested for trespassing...
...last week Frankie went back to the hustings. His first target was the jazz fans (rock 'n' rollers are clearly beyond his or anyone else's ken), and his schedule includes appearances at Forest Hills, Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit. His choice for first drop was that citadel of jazz purists, the Newport Jazz Festival. The assault was conducted in the new manner to which Sinatra has become accustomed...
...representatives of Europe's Outer Seven last week called for a meeting with ministers of the Common Market. They wanted to discuss "strengthening cooperation" and "coordinating policies" of the two blocs. Explained the man who had convened the Seven, Britain's Harold Wilson: "We are in our citadel, they are in theirs. There is no suggestion we should come out of ours waving a white flag. All we suggest is that we both come out of our citadels and seek to negotiate new arrangements...
When Vespasian finally took the citadel, Josephus went into hiding with 40 other Jews in a cave beneath the city. His companions were resolved to resist to the death, but Josephus, impressed in spite of himself by Roman might and discipline, wanted to surrender. To solve the impasse, Josephus proposed a kind of Jewish roulette: they would kill each other, one by one, by drawing lots; the survivor would then kill himself...
...spiel, until he gets the point. Slack-jawed indignation ensues. I am afraid, though, that you have ruined my sardonic joke. I got half way through your cover story before nausea overtook me, and it occurred to me that blind barbarism-in the Congo, in Mississippi-is the one citadel that will not tumble before mockery...