Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skipping lunch, MacArthur boarded the SCAP for an air reconnaissance along the border. The SCAP took MacArthur over the Communist stronghold at Sinuiju, the Suiho power site, and the whole length of the lower Yalu to Hyesanjin, where the 7th Division had reached the river. At Hyesanjin, the SCAP swooped down and waggled its wings in salute. Then it headed southeast for Tokyo...
...January 11, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to open the last stronghold of anti-feminism, the freshman courses. Today, all but six courses in the college are jointly open to Harvard and Radcliffe students. This has not been according to plan, because back in 1948, Dean Bender said, "Perhaps in a couple of years, when the whole setup is shaken down a bit, we can re-examine class lists and separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases...
...week's end, the French disturbed the Communists, capturing Viet Minh's stronghold of Thai Nguyen (40 miles north of Hanoi) in what French authorities described as "the most important French operation undertaken since spring...
...wheel and stepped on the gas. His jet-black car shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...
...Crimson Stompers, the College's Dixieland jazz band, opened their activities this past week with two appearances at Boston's Savoy Cafe, local stronghold of Dixio...