Word: stronghold
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...contempt for Wisconsin's junior Senator. During the campaign, Pusey endorsed "The McCarthy Record," an objective condemnation of the Senator and his tactics. As one professor said, "Any one can be anti-McCarthy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but for the President of the college located in Appleton, Wisconsin--McCarthy's stronghold--to sign that report, well, that took nerve"--especially since some of Lawrence's trustees are avid McCarthyites. On the whole, however, relations between town and gown have been unstrained. Townspeople interested in the college often attend the school's plays and open lectures. The rest seem to have forgotten...
...midday sun for the decision that would come from the palace. Abdullah Bayero, the fat and scented Emir of Kano, was wrestling with a problem. Both the royal flatterer and the court jester cowered in the background as he pounded across the Oriental rugs in the baked mud stronghold. At last the emir spoke: "Tell the Southerner my answer...
...First Lieut. Fae Margaret Adams, 34, a slight, soft-spoken brunette with a modest air, invaded a male stronghold: she became the first woman doctor to be commissioned in the Regular Army. An ex-WAC who got her M.D. under G.I. rights, she plans to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology...
...seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...
...that Israel is lost to her as a Mediterranean stronghold, Russia's present policy is to curry favor with the Arabs. The Prague trials, the mass confiscation of Jewish property both at home and in the satellites, and the diplomatic break with Israel are obvious evidences of this new tack...