Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey be considered a great stronghold of political independence. Not since the days of Woodrow Wilson have Jersey voters demonstrated a desire for progressive leadership--and Wilson was at first only the creature of a Democratic machine aiming to regain a superficial tint of honesty...
When the party first nominated him for Congress in 1946, it was in a West Side Democratic stronghold that had not elected a Republican since 1920. When the party nominated him for state attorney general in 1954, he was given scant chance against a Democrat whose name had special magic in New York ?Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He was the only Republican winner on the state ticket. When Javits sought the senatorial nomination in 1956, the party's conservatives did their best to block him. He finally got the nomination, after Millionaire John Hay Whitney issued an ultimatum...
Brother Jeff. Cool it was. In Grenada (pop. 7,914), a white supremacist stronghold that hitherto had been thought to be too tough for civil rights workers to crack, the Governor's dic tum received its clearest vindication. "We want Brother Jefferson Davis to know that the South he represented will never rise again," proclaimed Robert Green, 32, a march leader, as he stood astride the Davis memorial in the town square. "We want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With...
...Private. In some respects, Air America operates like a regular airline, providing scheduled service for the U.S. military between Okinawa. Japan and South Korea. But much of its work is strictly irregular. It was Air America pilots who dropped supplies to the French defenders of Dienbienphu before the stronghold fell in 1954. The company's next big assignment came two years later, when the U.S. moved to support the Laotian royalists in the Communist-inspired civil war. Thirty or so Air America planes dropped the rice and weapons that enabled royalist troops and Meo tribesmen to fight the Communist...
...graduate schools have marched in the parade for the last three or four years and have always been well greeted, but as one Irishman noted last night, "In Southie, the graduate schools have always been considered fine professional schools, but Harvard College for years was considered to be the stronghold of Boston's old yankee families...