Word: redoubtable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lose the Viet Nam war in 1968, but the year was a series of national traumas. After Tet, Americans suffered in their living rooms as more than 5,000 U.S. Marines held out for weeks after being surrounded at Khe Sanh, a redoubt in the chilly, wet South Vietnamese highlands. The heroism under heavy fire reminded many of the French troops who surrendered in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. But the Marines did not surrender. In March, Westmoreland was replaced as U.S. commander in South Viet Nam by General Creighton Abrams. President Johnson announced he would...
...century Jewish belief in the imminent arrival of a Messiah-like figure and the need for spiritual renewal -- teachings that anticipate Christ's message. "After the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, you could no longer say there was no historical Jesus," says Theologian Otto Betz of Tubingen, once a redoubt of Bultmannian doubters...
From the Festung Hohensalzburg, the fortified stone redoubt above the glorious Austrian city where Mozart was born, the old town presents a serene, unruffled vista. But look closer. Down on the Getreidegasse, a narrow medieval street near the Salzach River that is now a pedestrian mall, a motley multinational horde is snapping photos of the ancient house where young Wolfgang first quickened to the sound of his father's violin. Huge tour buses rumble down the streets and across the bridges, daily following the shade of Julie Andrews into the movie-set countryside. The garages are jammed, the restaurants...
...bowls of French beaded flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys...
From their fortified redoubt, they unfurled banners out the window (U.S. STOP SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, read one). They also scattered leaflets that condemned both the U.S. and the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. As 400 policemen surrounded the building, U.S. embassy officials moved to prevent a violent counterattack by reminding the government that Korean forces could not legally enter a U.S. diplomatic building. Calmly inviting U.S. diplomats inside for face-to-face conversations, the students delivered demands that centered on U.S. withdrawal of support from the Chun regime. Unless their appeals were met, they warned, they would...