Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.). Since 1968, this has meant determined support for the war in Indochina, a fact warmly cited by President Nixon in his televised address last Friday. His routinely partisan politics--which may make him a weak candidate in any election outside his stronghold in Grand Rapids--have been all but ignored in the celebrations that have followed the Nixon speech...
...policy was not being well enforced. Last week soldiers on a house-to-house search of Santiago's San Borja district-a fashionable leftist stronghold -broke through locked doors and tossed thousands of books and papers out of apartment windows. Among the works consumed in impromptu street bonfires were Mao's Little Red Book, novels by Mark Twain, economic studies by John Kenneth Galbraith-and old copies of TIME...
Harvard's overall investment strategy is to try to maximize both capital gains, and thus growth of the endowment, and income to be used for current expenditures. Because income is arbitrarily defined as interest on bonds and dividends on stock, bonds are the stronghold of income, while common stocks provide almost all the capital gains and some of the income. Last year, bonds provided more than 50 per cent of the income even though they make up only a third of the portfolio...
Just below the Indians' stronghold -a brilliantly whitewashed Catholic church high atop a bluff-an Indian drove a bulldozer in and out of sight as he deepened the trenches and thickened the fortifications that would shield the militants against the approaching attack. On the perimeters, patrols spied on Government operations through field glasses. An Indian guard, fingering his .30-30 under the gathering storm clouds, boasted: "They are going to see how tough we are. Anything comes down that road, we blow it apart...
...million-acre stretch of honey-colored hills. The Indians put up roadblocks around Wounded Knee in the early hours of the takeover before a contingent of U.S. marshals in turquoise jumpsuits formed a cordon about the area. Some of the people curious and foolhardy enough to wander near the stronghold were met by spurts of gunfire from the hefty Sioux arsenal. AIM Leader Russell Means, an Oglala Sioux who comes from Cleveland, announced to newsmen: "We've got the whole Wounded Knee valley, and we definitely are going to hold it until death do us part...