Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last count, some 200 lions were roaring contentedly in the Forest of Gir, their last stronghold on the subcontinent, where they are protected by the state government...
...Bologna, a Red stronghold, the party could produce no sea of faces or grim proletarian columns. In groups of five to eight, activists toured the city, calling on shops to close and workers to strike. Whenever the celere appeared, the activists, to avoid arrest, would suddenly produce a soccer ball and begin to play. In one day there were at least 500 games going. Major trouble was avoided, but shops remained shut, factories idle...
...Foolish Heart (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is the kind of movie that gives women a good cry and men a bad time. Strangely enough, it comes from a short story by J. D. Salinger in The New Yorker, literary stronghold of the stiff upper lip. Under the treatment of scripter-brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial...
...that this was the time and the hour finally to weld a coherent foreign-policy program for Asia. It fell to grey, soldierly Omar Bradley to report, in grey, soldierly words, the J.C.S. decision of the preceding week to stiffen the defense of Formosa, Nationalist China's island stronghold, with a small U.S. military mission. As General Bradley droned on, he knew he was outlining a Pentagon reversal of the State Department's flaccid policy of waiting for something to turn up in Asia. No professional, he did his plain-spoken best...