Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition in western Turkey uncovered a 2500 year old citadel this summer. The fortress, found at Sardis, the capital of the Lydian kingdom, was stormed by King Cyrus when he dethroned King Croesus...
...foot long fortress, built in the sixth or fifth century B.C., reveals the Lydians had a sophisticated military architecture, Hanfmann said...
...Sunday afternoon, they participated in a choral evensong that gave them a far larger role than the regular Sunday morning service, but within a sacred setting. The occasion was Reformation Day, and the program was built around Bach's Cantata #80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ("A mighty fortress...
...mobile SA-6 and SA-7 missiles were planted on both banks of the canal. With their high-technology controls, the SAMs held the key to victory or defeat. The Israelis, who had easily established air superiority in the previous Middle East war, had to destroy this fortress of SAMs and artillery. In the first week of the war, Israel had lost about one-fourth of its air force; most of the planes had been shot down by SAMs. Since a direct aerial assault on the missile sites might have proved suicidal, the Israelis chose to attack them instead...
...flow. Their frequency, which keeps the movie racing blindly along, leaves little room for plot, and only a minimum is supplied. Bruce Lee (who starred last spring in Fists of Fury, one of the first of the current wave of Kung Fu epics) is engaged to penetrate an island fortress ruled by Han (Shih Kien), a sort of made-in-Hong-Kong version of Doctor No. Han traffics in dope and white slavery; his only contact with the outside world is the martial-arts tournament he holds every three years. Lee, armed only with his hands and flying feet...