Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in as many operations in the Civil War. The school is also proud of a streamer (added in 1939) embroidered "Confederate States Army," for The Citadel is the nation's stanchest stronghold of the Grey traditions...
...Magnitogorsk Scott saw factories rise out of the mud-watched a town of 2,000 mushroom into Russia's largest iron and steel stronghold, with an annual production of close to 3,000,000 tons. "Building Magnitogorsk from the ground up caused more casualties than the Battle of the Marne," he says. The story of that tremendous enterprise and its terrific toll in human lives and effort is in his first book, Beyond the Urals...
...might even now be waving over Hawaii. Though we were spared that disaster, which might have knocked us out of the war before we had even started, we suffered defeat after defeat, retreat after retreat. Hong-Kong was the first to fall; them the Philippines and the "impregnable" stronghold of Singapore, and with it the only large-scale naval base in the Far East. The loss of the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and parts of the Russian Caucasus deprived our armed forces of badly needed oil, rubber, and metals...
...third of Congress and carried but two states in the fight for the presidency, is once again on the threshold of national power. Senate Republicans, while still a clear minority, have risen from complete impotence to a challenging position by picking up at least nine seats. The House, Democratic stronghold since the middle of the Hoover administration, shows a more startling doubt the Democrats appear to have retained a nominal majority by perhaps as little as half-a-dozen votes--a long drop from the margin of fifty-five with which they entered Tuesday's balloting. And in the nation...
MOSCOW--German assault troops captured two streets in the factory area of North Stalingrad Sunday while a Russian relief army hearing down from the northwest swept through an inhabited locality and seized a stronghold where 2,000 German dead were found lying in trenches and dugouts, the High Command announced today...