Word: stronghold
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Giving is making a personal commitment to an institution. And people should not support an institution that would not have tolerated them or treated them equally. To do so would be to block out history. No one can afford to ignore the record of discrimination at this academic stronghold, nor let the solutions of the present overshadow memories of a problematic past...
...very fact that Wilder, 58, will head his party's statewide ticket in a former stronghold of the Confederacy is an indication of progress. Since 1964 the number of black elected officials has grown from 103 to more than 6,000. But the numbers conceal a disturbing reality: in many places racial antagonism is sharpening rather than abating -- a process that politicians, both white and black, have at times exacerbated. Republican TV spots on the Willie Horton case in last year's presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman...
...four consecutive winters, Konovalchik has jumped off the football fields and onto the wrestling mats, has shifted from tackling opponents to taking them down and has emerged from being a stronghold on the football team to a power on the wrestling team...
...before his capture, when he ventured into Beirut's southern suburbs to quiz Hizballah spiritual leader Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. But Anderson's colleagues at the Associated Press believe he may have put himself on Hizballah's blacklist as far back as 1983, when he traveled to their stronghold in Baalbek to grill Shi'ite leaders about the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks...
...head off retaliation by Sikh extremists, the government stepped up security in the capital and three northern states, including the Sikh stronghold of Punjab. The cremated ashes of the executed were temporarily locked away. To little avail. In the Punjab village of Badowal, militant bands of Sikhs raided the homes of Hindu workers, apparently selected at random, killing at least ten by gunfire...