Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlers plan to evict all Kikuyus from a five-mile-wide buffer zone surrounding the 12,000-ft. Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
City Beneath the Sea (Universal-International) is the onetime pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and submerged in the Caribbean by a tidal wave. Around this colorful historic event, the movie spins a modern plot about a couple of deep-sea divers (Robert Ryan and Anthony Quinn) searching for a million dollars in sunken gold...
...dining hall that Miles in his element. He always draws a full table, and will stay until the last man is finished--never less than an hour. In a House that is a stronghold of Young Republicanism, Miles especially enjoys political jousts. Waving his cigar and quoting profusely from Aquinas, he kept the Republicans at bay all through the election campaign. Miles is particularly loquacious about what he feels has been a vicious campaign of debasement aimed at Harry Truman, whom he considers the greatest man in public life today...
...news on Formosa last week was a visiting celebrity: Dr. Hu Shih, China's most respected scholar, who was concluding his first visit to Formosa since that strategic island became the Nationalist refuge and stronghold. Scholar Hu (who has been leading the scholarly life in New York and Princeton) received a flattering and festive welcome, dined with Chiang Kai-shek and lectured to eager crowds...
...records be kept for from one to ten years have given Mosler's sales a big boost. (In ten years, they have more than tripled.) Another big sales stimulator has been the atom bomb. For such customers as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Mosler has built a bombproof stronghold for records 30 feet below Metropolitan's Manhattan headquarters, which even a direct hit will not destroy. (A Mosler vault in Hiroshima's Teikoku Bank, only 300 yards from the center of the atom bomb's blast, was unbreached, and the bank was rebuilt around...