Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria, which Frenchmen fondly imagine they have made a part of metropolitan France by simple administrative fiat, rebels emerged from their Aures mountain stronghold, went marauding through the Constantine countryside in bands of 80 to 100, cutting telegraph lines, tearing up railroad tracks, and on three occasions boldly attacking police and army patrols. Hopping about the troubled area in a helicopter, Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle admitted: "The situation is serious." All week long in Paris, Premier Faure conferred worriedly amidst a din of newspaper alarm. For Morocco and Algeria he could offer only promises for the future...
Ansbach, Germany, for no reason except enthusiasm and the fact that the old Bach stronghold, Leipzig, is now behind the Iron Curtain, puts on its annual Bach festival (July 23-30). On hand: Spanish Guitarist Andrés Segovia, U.S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Featured choral work: the B-Minor Mass...
...recent years certain Unitarians have rashly asserted that the school has been losing its position as a stronghold of non-orthodox theological education, Eliot said. These critics, he added, may "be comforted by recent development...
...Blind Eye. Both sides were like wrestlers, breathing heavily, circling and feinting to find the openings for a grapple hold on the other fellow. One corner of the ring was the "brick and Brussels sprouts" constituency of Mid-Bedfordshire. Mid-Bed was long a Liberal Party stronghold. In the increased polarization of politics, the Liberals have been everywhere crushed in the middle...
...Butler turned up in Newcastle, the shipbuilding, coal-mining Labor stronghold where in 1932 more than a third of the working force was on the dole, and where nobody forgets Jarrow, the nearby "town that died...