Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Minh's General Vo Nguyen Giap had three Red divisions which had lain low for eight months. Last fortnight Giap attacked on a 40-mile front, quickly toppled a handful of mud-and-bamboo French outposts. His main target was the French stronghold of Nghialo (which the Communists had tried vainly, a year ago, to wrest from the late great General De Lattre de Tassigny...
...have been less objectively written than the one, "Missionaries in Rome" [Sept. 29] ... Does TIME favor religious freedom? Does it make any difference to TIME whether 450 people or 450,000 people are involved? How would TIME describe an effort to suppress a Roman Catholic mission in some Protestant stronghold in America...
Chicago is the Democratic stronghold, usually producing pluralities of around 250,000. The Chicago Democratic machine is the most effective in the U.S. Although Chicago's boss Jacob ("Jack") Arvey is himself not tainted with corruption, organized crime nourishes in Chicago. Republicans frequently charge that the underworld is protected by members of Arvey's organization. The Kefauver Senate committee called Chicago "a focal point for the activities of organized criminals...
...years since passage of the Wagner Act, Pittsburgh and the smoke-curtained western steel counties around it have become a Democratic stronghold. Philadelphia now has a Democratic city administration for the first time since 1884, is still in the emotional throes of revolt against decades of tobacco-stained Republican boss rule, and is awash with independent-minded voters...
Since the days of the Reformation, Berlin has been a Protestant stronghold, and often a place of bitter memory for Germany's Roman Catholics. Last week Catholics were again battling for their faith in Berlin, but not against the Protestants. The Katholikentag, the 75th official congress of German Catholics, found Catholics and Protestants solidly lined up against a common enemy: Communism...