Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intensive revolution. Of course, the old system of capitalist economy and capitalist policy, he said, is everywhere ripe for destruction, but the forces of the governing classes are so strong that extensive eruptions have only small chance of succeeding. Only through combination with the first great stronghold of Communism - Russia - can upheavals and movements be successful. But Russia can give assistance chiefly to its neighbor peoples." Historian Dallin does not share Author Scott's faith that the Big Three can achieve permanent peace for the world. In five bleak chapters he tells why. He warns that the U.S., because...
...Seventy-two cases of art stolen from France and from Russia-in the former Carthusian Monastery at Buxheim. ¶ Some 300 cases of miscellaneous loot-in another old stronghold of Ludwig II of Bavaria on the island of Herren...
With the departure of a large percentage of the ASTP, composed of enlisted men, Mather Hall is the remaining stronghold of the CATS, an officers' version of the ASTP. An all-volunteer group, the CATS now specialize in the far east during their six months' course here. This includes a study not only of the history and customs but also an intensive language course designed to give at least a rudimentary knowledge of even the most difficult Asiatic tongues. Although the aspect of military training and drilling cannot be completely omitted, it has been kept at a minimum...
...east Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky split land communications between Danzig and Gdynia and was closing a double set of prongs on the two cities. Farther east Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, 47-year-old Cossack, took Braunsberg, one-time stronghold of the Teutonic Knights...
...Shanghai the Japs took over the light and power plant owned by American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. Recently the United Press in Chungking reported a rumor that the Japs now plan to dismantle the $20 million plant and haul it away to their stronghold in Manchuria...