Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Zulus died that night a fortnight ago, but on the following afternoon when the Basutos, protected by a police guard, marched past the Zulu stronghold on the way back from burying one of their dead heroes, the Zulus struck back. Streaming behind a shower of stones from their government-built hostel gates with cries of "Idedele, idedele!" (Get out of the way!), they swarmed through the police lines; the police opened fire on the Zulus with pistols and Sten guns...
...were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west Java, stronghold of the Moslem Masjumi Party, they had apparently replaced President Sukarno's Nationalists as the second strongest...
...Whitehall the hand-wringing over the prospect of killing anyone changed to hand-wringing over not bringing the silly little war to an end. At last, British military commanders ordered ground and aerial fire against the rebel stronghold of Firq, believed to be held by the Imam's brother, an ambitious scalawag named Talib bin Ali. British commanders also ordered bombing missions against the presumed stronghold of the Imam himself, a palm-ringed, fortified village called Nizwa, ten miles from Firq...
...reputation as a defender of the underdog. Changed his Liberal sympathies in 1925, ran first of four unsuccessful races as a Tory, losing in one to famed Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Elected in 1940, has since 1945 been the only Tory M.P. from the Liberal and socialist stronghold of Saskatchewan. Won leadership of the Conservatives in December 1956, succeeded ailing, standoffish George Drew...
...alternate their government more or less regularly between the Conservatives, who took over after Confederation in 1867, and the Liberals, who have ruled the country since 1935. With a general election set for June 10. the two major parties now face a bumptious challenge from Western Canada. From their stronghold in Alberta and British Columbia, the Social Credit Party's high command swept into Toronto last week for a national convention launching their first serious bid for national influence...