Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these evils which last week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...
...President is already so pressed for time that he has fumbled the political efforts he has made; e.g., the New York campaign. While Flynn is able enough as the Boss of The Bronx, that wilderness of apartment houses which is the greatest single Democratic stronghold north of the Mason & Dixon line, he is no James Aloysius Farley on a national scale, and has never pretended to be. If the President is going to wrest a Democratic victory this fall, he must do it mainly alone...
...Berlin had raised a Red scare. Sweden was "the principle stronghold of Bolshevism in Europe." Boomed Berlin's radio: "Bolshevism has been able to establish new bases in Sweden. . . . [This] will have to be carefully watched by European powers fighting the Bolshevik enemy...
...first 55 of the 120 miles to Port Moresby, the enemy had fairly easy going. There was a rudimentary road to guide him to the last Allied stronghold in the Indies, and he moved swiftly, while to his rear other soldiers prepared the grasslands of the Gona Mission country for airdrome operations...
...wrecking in protest against the jailing of the Hurs' Robin Hood leader, the lecherous, pock-marked Pir of Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...