Word: fortresses
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...smeared with shaving cream, and crawling around on the sidewalks. Then a spoil-sport Cambridge policeman forced the fun-loving humor writers back into their Castle. They streamed out with towels over their faces shortly afterwards when an unidentified student (who can say why?) hurried the bomb into their fortress...
...April day in 963, Count Sigfroi, a Wagnerian warrior from the Ardennes, raised his banner over a fortress on a formidable rock above the Alzette River in the eastern Frankish empire. Though Sigfroi's wife soon vanished-she turned out to be a water nymph-and his fortress crumbled, the fief he founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well...
...fight was only beginning. Rebel units surrounded Baghdad's huge, yellow brick Defense Ministry, the home and headquarters of Premier Kassem, which was defended by 600 trusted soldiers. The rebels brought up tanks and heavy artillery, and Iraqi fighter planes strafed and bombed the Kassem fortress...
...Restoration England, a robustious culture surrounded the pious fortress of the church like a red satin garter on a maiden's thigh. Trapped inside the fortress all day, church composers slipped out at night to meet in taverns where, in naughty laughter, they celebrated secular gaiety by composing bawdy songs to one another. Now, three young singers who call themselves "The Catch Club" are running through a lighthearted repertory of the old songs, proving nicely that spicy jokes are almost ageless...
Aftre having been rebuilt four times in a century, this structure was abandoned about 1650 B.C., the ruins covered over, and a massive temple-fortress erected--the largest in Palestine. A new 35-foot-high wall was built to protect the temple, and two great city gates constructed. It remained in Egyptian hands for 400 years until the 13th century B.C., when the Israelites under Joshua conquered the land of Palestine...