Word: redoubtable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uneasily into a pastoral life as goat and camel herdsmen in the sere, sand-scoured mountains north of Timbuctoo. Last week in the Republic of Mali, some 5,000 Tuaregs decided the kissing had to stop. Holed up in the Adrar des Iforas, a parched, 40,000-sq.-mi. redoubt that straddles the Mali-Algerian border, they prepared to fight off half of Mali's army...
...change their Chinese folding money for gold. When the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Hang Seng deftly resettled in unoccupied Macao; it moved back to Hong Kong right after the war. then profited from another rush for gold as the Communists swept down into central China from their northern redoubt. But when the Reds finally took over the entire mainland, the gold market lost much of its luster and Hang Seng looked elsewhere...
When prison officials called in a force of 200 machine gun-toting cops to reinforce the regular guards, the prisoners in their high, fourth-tier redoubt began to shoot their hostages, one by one, to "dramatize" their demand. Two of 'the bodies were hurled from a window to the cops and guards in the courtyard below...
Switzerland's powerful firm of Nestlé Alimentana last week launched another carefully planned assault on European palates and pocketbooks. From Nestlé's modernistic Alpine redoubt in the quiet town of Vevey came word that the company had put together a handful of small Austrian, German and Scandinavian firms that it has quietly bought up over the past two years, and set up a frozen food subsidiary called Findus International. Nestlé's market researchers have discovered that the average American consumes 48 lbs. of frozen food a year, the average European less than three. Nestl...
With increasingly totalitarian methods, the white leaders of South Africa are building a southern redoubt for a last-ditch stand against black nationalism on their bottom tip of the continent. Last week the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd proposed new legislation that will snuff out basic freedoms of all South Africans, black and white...