Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a drive across the frozen Pripet Marshes, a Russian column had outflanked the German stronghold of Gomel...
Victorious on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 1), Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away...
These are tangibles of power politics. No matter how little taste the American people may have for power politics, their representatives must speak to the occupants of a stronghold of power politics, the Kremlin...
These, and other battles fought along Russia's 1,500-mile front promised major victories, which may come during the Tripartite Conference. During the week Moscow announced: > The capture of Nevel, key stronghold on the important Kalinin front. > The entry into Gomel's suburbs, the capture of villages within 62 miles of the Latvian border, 22 miles of Vitebsk, 30 miles of Mogilev...
With his mother, wife and two sons, Dr. Maier lives on the campus of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary, a Lutheran stronghold and one of the largest Protestant seminaries in the U.S. He teaches two courses in Old Testament at Concordia. He also edits the Walther League Messenger (circulation: over 50,000) for Lutheran young folk, signs his three monthly editorials "W.A.M." His students call...