Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special congressional election in Iowa's Fourth District was important enough to bring Governor Herschel Loveless hurrying down from Des Moines. Loveless, the leading Democrat in a state that was once a Republican stronghold, had a big point to prove: the Democrats are in the Farm Belt to stay. To Loveless, the whole election turned on one big question. "Ezra Benson is the only issue in the campaign," he cried. "Benson is Republicanism...
Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy...
Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...
...stronghold tradition of parietal hours has, over the years, been chipped away, undergraduates have become, not less, but more responsible. Of course, Masters are, by their nature, a reticent lot, holding back where possible, conserving a tradition in the face of criticism; but it seems blatantly unfair to assume that if an argument for the responsibility of Harvard students has to be made it must necessarily come from the undergraduates themselves. Surely the Administration does not have to await a show of militancy before it acts for the benefit of the student body...
...priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank. He had fought well in Flanders against the French, and William Pitt the Elder recommended the stiff-necked young major general to run the siege of Quebec, France's major stronghold in America...