Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last stronghold of the Harvard of 1942 will remain, to all appearances unchanged. Yes, externally the same, the Lampoon Building will still exist, heedless of the swirling currents of humanity that pass and crash at its corner. But inside its three walls things will be different, for after having served the functional purpose of an airraid shelter during the War, the Lampoon will have been turned over to the Boston Elevated Railway as a subway station...
...news spread through the city. Mozhaisk had been recaptured. The last German stronghold near the capital was again in Russian hands. Smoking Russian cold and smoking Russian artillery (under heavy-jawed Major General Leonid Alek-sandrovich Govorov, hero of World War I and the Finnish War) had at last shattered the carefully prepared German positions in the city...
Argentina. From South America's stronghold of isolationism, despite earlier fears of noncooperation, came strong assurances that Argentina would stand by her Havana Convention commitments (defining aggression against one American nation as aggression against the others). Chile and Argentina debated retirement of an agreement whereby the Strait of Magellan was to remain demilitarized perpetually...
...stronghold of U.S. isolationism fell almost with the first shots. The America First Committee quietly dismantled its guns, took down its flags, mustered...
Britain's East African forces last week captured Gondar, the last Italian stronghold in Ethiopia. Using Highland, Indian, Sudanese, South and West African, Free French and Ethiopian troops, 46-year-old Major General Charles Fowkes took into camp 10,000 weary, hungry Italians and natives with their 50 guns...