Word: redoubtable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harking back to the flagpole sitting days of the roaring twenties," the News said that the five seniors had only taken with them to their redoubt the necessities of life: a portable radio, blankets, a dictionary, and a copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson...
...Battle of Schedule Five of the Senate's tariff war, Old Guardsmen, led by Generalissimo Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, had stormed the redoubt of the Democratic-Progressive Republican coalition with a demand for a higher sugar rate. The fighting was fierce and confused, with troopers switching from side to side like the tail of a fly-bitten horse. When the lines were reformed and counted, it was found that the Old Guard had been repulsed...