Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like barbed-wire entanglements. Now the streets are mere crevasses between the houses, emergency exits for those who flee. But in many places they are broad. These are the ways of advance prepared for the attack against the heavens. And the factory chimneys are like the barrels of guns...
Reforming a bad prison is as delicate and dangerous a job as tinkering with the mechanism of a faulty bomb. For 88 years, California ran its fortress-like San Quentin penitentiary by looking the other way and hoping for the best. From the days when it was still a barnacled hulk floating off San Quentin Point, tough "con-bosses" all but ran the prison. Money bought liquor, women and narcotics, and the place was incredibly mismanaged. Some inmates made a small fortune during the '30s by turning out counterfeit bills in the prison photoengraving shop. But ordinary convicts were...
...burning and smoking rubble. The infantrymen were so close that they could have looked down into the town, if the weather had been clear instead of thick. The Chinese had pulled out most of their men and guns. Some 800, left as a screening force on a height called Fortress Mountain, were encircled. Like most such "traps," this one proved more of a sieve; three-fourths of the Reds slithered out and got away, but 200 were killed on top of the mountain by U.N. forces...
...years between world wars in North Africa under Marshal Lyautey, took command of the French 15th Motorized Division in Belgium, helped cover the Allied retreat to Dunkirk, was surrounded by Hitler's panzers, fought until his division ran out of ammunition, was finally taken prisoner. Held in the fortress of Königstein (from which General Henri Giraud escaped) until July 1941, when the Germans released him in the belief that he would help Vichy defend its territory against Anglo-American attack. Took command of Vichy forces in North Africa, and after putting up some resistance against the Western...
Ramrod Discipline. Today, under the superintendency of Major General Richard J. Marshall, distant cousin of General Marshall, V.M.I, stretches out over 300 acres, a place of fortress-like tan stucco-covered buildings, looming towers, and crenellated walls. V.M.I. still takes a fierce pride in its ramrod discipline. All cadets live, four to a room, in two adjoining barracks, kept always in inspection-ready order. Uniforms are hung on racks (there are no closets), cots are stacked each day, rifles and sabers are racked against the walls. The day officially begins with breakfast formation at 7 a.m. From then on-through...