Word: bastions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word "co-education" sully that happy arrangement--now envelopes the entire Yard in its embrace. Only the Lamont Library remains the final bastion of monasticism, and perhaps our great-grandchildren may live to see even its barriers fall...
...send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion of the Pacific would be little more than a training base...
...state west of the Iron Curtain. Surrounded by Italy, San Marino's fortress, La Rocca, overlooking the Adriatic, towers above the grey stone face of Mount Titano (145 miles north of Rome). By modern standards, La Rocca's massive, crumbling grey walls are not much of a bastion, but last week San Marino's Communists held the fort...
Cozy Concept. For months, the JCS hopefully contended that the Communist conquest of China constituted no immediate threat to U.S. security in the Pacific; Japan was the U.S.'s bastion and it was safe in MacArthur's hands. MacArthur himself now blasted this cozy concept. In the north, the Russians had always been in position to attack the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido from Vladivostok and their bases in the Kurils. The southward plunge of Chinese Reds now threatened to give Russia domination of the China coast down to Shanghai...
...perpetuation-a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our nation the Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among us, the soldier who becomes an educator . . . enters no foreign field . . ." Eisenhower was going to see to it, he said, that Columbia remained a bastion of freedom: "Only by education in the apparently obvious [fundamentals of freedom] can doubt and fear be resolved . . . There will be no administrative suppression or distortion...