Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia also was having acute satellite trouble in Albania, the tiny backward outpost in the Adriatic that has repudiated Soviet leadership as "revisionist" and sided with the tough Red Chinese. Last week the outside world learned that Albania's Communist leaders executed two of their own Foreign Office officials as spies-for Russia...
...some cases-was adultery. Fornication was punished by exile or drowning. In the four years between 1542 and 1546, there were 58 executions and 76 banishments in a city of about 20,000. Yet to those with a taste for it, Geneva under Calvin seemed almost like an earthly outpost of the Kingdom of God. The famed Scottish reformer, John Knox, lived there for three years and called it "the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the Apostles...
...need the help of a selfless missionary? As an old China hand (he spent almost a year in a Communist jail in 1950-51), Moffett knew what part of the globe to study. At length he chose the barren, wind-whipped Paeng Yong Islands, South Korea's farthest outpost in the Yellow Sea. lying a hairline south of the 38th parallel and only 7,000 yds. from Communist shore batteries...
...anything but wicked. Burlesque has never come back since La Guardia, and the strip joints are more pathetic than inflammatory-particularly since Strip Row on West 52nd Street was closed down in deference to all the big new office skyscrapers and remote Greenwich Village has become almost the last outpost of the skin trade...
...League is supposed to be the last outpost of athletic innocence, but the recent debate on recruiting has shown that even the Ivies cannot agree on what, in fact, is right. Dartmouth sends its coaches out beating the bush for applicants, and says there is nothing wrong with it. Princeton also does a good deal of active recruiting, but its officials are less eager to admit...