Word: stronghold
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Vice President Walter Mondale suffered a stunning slap in the face in his native state of Minnesota, which has long been considered a liberal stronghold. There, amid the fractious squabbling of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the G.O.P. scored a major sweep. Despite numerous visits and pep talks by Mondale, despite two trips to the state by the President, the voters turned the Democrats out of the governorship and both Senate seats. In a rueful postmortem, a shellshocked Mondale concluded: "I shouldn't have told them to do it for Hubert Humphrey and me, but to do it for themselves...
...fight in the Fifth District and as the Democratic nominee is an odds-on favorite to succeed Tsongas. His Republican opponent, Middlesex County Sheriff John Buckley, has been running strong, but observers doubt his votes in Boston's northwest suburbs will offset Shannon's expected power in the Democratic stronghold cities of Lowell and Lawrence...
...still Taiwan, just as it was when Richard Nixon began the normalization of relations with China six years ago. The Communists insist that the U.S. close its embassy in Taipei, abrogate its 24-year-old mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China, and accept the Communist claim that the offshore stronghold is simply a province of the People's Republic. "We are talking about recognition," Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping said during his current visit to Tokyo, but "on these three conditions we are waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind...
...somewhere near the City of Brotherly Love, there is a college known as West Chester State. It's not exactly your Big Ten, national power sports factory, but it is a women's lacrosse stronghold. Third-year Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder is a West Chester grad, a product of the school's lacrosse wisdom. And this spring, Kleinfelder will impart some of her training to the Harvard women, as she takes over the women's lacrosse reins...
...conflict that has destroyed much of the Christian sector of East Beirut is now moving into the western sector of the city and the northern mountains, a stronghold of right-wing militia troops...