Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists, but all are discontented. In caves and U.N. refugee camps squat 450,000 dispossessed Palestine refugees, idle and restless, spoiling for trouble. With the encouragement of Egyptian agitators and Saudi Arabian bribes, they have challenged the whole basis of Britain's position in its last stronghold on the strategic Middle East land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa...
...currently the No. 1 hit on almost every list. It has been called deeply American by some and dangerously radical by others. Where did it come from? Along with its creator, Songwriter Merle Travis, it came out of Kentucky, still a stronghold of American folk song...
...staunchest of these non-conformists is the Savoy Cafe, long the stronghold of solid, two-beat Dixie. It presently features a stomping group which plays its own version of old-fashioned tuba jazz. This nightspot, perhaps the hottest in town, still allows customers enough light to read on its table cards that it has no cover or minimum...
Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
...Community) Party, organized only six months ago by popular, chubby 32-year-old ex-King Norodom Sihanouk. The neutralist Democratic Party, which controlled the last National Assembly before its dissolution in 1952, polled a mere 18% of the votes. The Communists got almost none except in their stronghold of Kampot, shared with other minor parties only some 12%. Sangkum candidates won all 91 seats in the new Assembly, a victory of almost embarrassing proportions for Prince Sihanouk. Apologizing for success, he declared: "If I wanted to fake the elections, I would never have the effrontery to scrounge all the seats...