Word: fortresses
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...rippled through the world's capitals on the news of Kennedy's murder. European statesmen feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when he tacked civil rights legislation onto a minor bill and rammed...
...from the palace. Then the white flag waved again and firing stopped. At first cautiously, then freely, the camouflage-suited rebels began to stand up, and a chorus of cheers welled up from the streets. Western-style, they fired their guns in the air, and rushed into the sieved fortress...
...hope," he said, "that we will take this rich country of ours and improve it through science and find new uses for our natural resources, to make it possible for us to sustain a steadily increasing standard of living, the highest in the world, and based on that powerful fortress, to move out around the world in defense of freedom as we have done for 18 years and as we must do in the years to come...
...construction, severity in the whole, nobility without arro gance, majesty without ostentation." Except for the gables, almost every line in the facades is dead straight; the exterior is cold, unadorned and broken only by tiny windows; the dome of the basilica is enclosed as if within a fortress. Thus at a stroke, Philip ended the tradition of exuberantly ornamented Spanish architecture known as the plateresque, a hodgepodge of Gothic, Moorish and early Renaissance motifs...
...history's truly horrifying figures was a now forgotten Russian named Sergei Nechaev, who died in St. Petersburg at the age of 35 in the top security section of the Czar's Peter-Paul Fortress...