Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ecstatic blacks danced through the streets of Mozambique, shouting "Viva Spinola! Viva Spinola!" Out in the bush, where there had been bitter fighting only days before, guerrillas and Portuguese soldiers laid down their arms and shook hands in a spontaneous ceasefire. In the northern province of Tete, a stronghold of the Mozambique Liberation Front [Frelimo] and scene of the war's worst civilian massacres, hatred seemed magically transformed into brotherhood. A rebel leader high on Portugal's "wanted" list exhorted a throng of blacks and whites "to live in harmony." Frelimo guerrillas were feted at a dinner party...
Dolours and Marion are daughters of a former I.R. A. officer who once tunneled his way out of a Londonderry prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
...management of Harvard's financial affairs. And when Walter M. Cabot '55 takes over management of Harvard's portfolio in two weeks, Bennett's domain in the University's financial world will have been reduced to his chairmanship of the University Committee on Resources, hardly equal to his previous stronghold...
Oliveira points out that one of the reasons that the Portuguese are ignored by the rest of the city is that they have such a low political profile. "They aren't a stronghold for political people," Oliveira says. "Cambridge doesn't care as much as it should about our people--East Cambridge means too little to the rest of the city...
Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party suffered a stunning electoral setback in its traditional stronghold of Hamburg last week, is even more gloomy about the future. While West Germany sits on the fattest bankroll in Europe, its leaders are haunted by an old fear: that if Germans begin to push, steer and wrestle the Common Market into the image they want, then the hatreds and stereotypes of the Nazi past will burst back in full venom...