Search Details

Word: stronghold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ideological struggle, Kadar obviously meant his failure to persuade the people that his regime was good for them. In several areas the workers' councils refused to accept his decree outlawing them. According to Kadar's official Nep Szabadsag, Heves county, northeast of Budapest, was virtually a rebel stronghold whose villagers "just jeer at the order and carry on their activities ..." But Kadar's biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Ideological Struggle | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Last (with Mississippi) of the dry states, Oklahoma is a stronghold of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Drys. The state was dry when it entered the union in 1907, and has remained militantly dry since; six repeal referendums have been defeated (as much through the bootleggers' efforts as the W.C.T.U.'s). Today there are no open saloons, but a $100 million-a-year bootleg business will supply 400 varieties of liquor at reasonable prices to anyone who wants them. On the other hand, the state loses $15 million each year-in tax revenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Systematized Hypocrisy | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...possible danger in such a plan is that a particular House, over a period of time, might build up a reputation as the stronghold for Democrats, or mountain climbers, or bridge players. For a certain House to be known for a particular activity would not be necessarily indesirable, but the situation could become extreme. A simple remedy of rotating the various organizations' offices, however, would effectively solve the problem of ingrained stereotypes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Executive Suite | 11/16/1956 | See Source »

...Among the critical engagements: CJ In Illinois, oleaginous Everett McKinley Dirksen took a tight grip on the Eisenhower coattails, discovered they were a dandy answer for the vigorous door-to-door, factory-to-factory handshaking campaign waged by Democrat Richard Stengel. Dirksen, like Eisenhower, cracked Cook County, the Democratic stronghold, coasted to his second term on the crest of a comfortable downstate Republican vote that shot his majority to better than 300,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Near Balance | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

City College of New York is also a Democratic stronghold this year, where there are four student groups canvassing door-to-door for Stevenson-Kefauver support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support for Ike, Adlai Even Here, 'Times' Reports | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next