Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch the whole face of the building without leaving cover. Along the building's window ledges run beams of infra-red light, each hitched to an alarm system. The windows themselves are intricately wired, and hidden wires thread through walls and partitions. No visitor is admitted to this stronghold except for a very good reason, and once a visitor is inside, he is watched and escorted continuously, even when he goes to the toilet...
From 1636 until about 100 years ago, the University was a stronghold of Puritanism. The Puritans entertained a rather austere view toward most subjects, particularly towards Christmas...
...Lattre's target was Communist stronghold Choben, lying in a gap between rugged, razorback mountain ranges 30 miles southwest of Hanoi, through which runs Route Coloniale No. 21. Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...
...Labor 294 13,945,263 48.7 Liberals 6 723,000 2.5 Communists 0 22,000 .1 Others 3 177,000 .7 100 Labor actually had a popular vote of 224,000 votes over the Tories, but the big leads they ran up in their stronghold constituencies were, in effect, wasted votes. The Tories have a parliamentary majority of only 18, and a majority of 27 over Labor, much too close for comfort...
...Joyce Mathews, divorced wife of Milton Berle, had attempted suicide in his Ziegfeld Theater apartment (TIME, July 23). Last week he was in trouble again. The scene was the same. His wife, former Olympic Swimmer Eleanor Holm, equipped with camera and a private detective at her side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, photographers banged away at the blinking, bewildered husband as he fumbled with his key, vainly trying to unlock the door. Then...