Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College alumni lists and steam heat) with this last bastion of male elitism. Since most of the clubs have already begun voluntary replacement of phone and heat services, and many of them have close connections with their alumni on the faculty, such a gesture would be chiefly symbolic; but it is one that is long overdue. The time for university-sanctioned...
...this bastion of high-class learning, living and tax evasion simply uses the color--not the color and the laundry soap--to identify itself on the playing field...
Massachusetts, considered a stubborn bastion of liberalism, was the only state to resist President Richard M. Nixon's reelection tidal wave...
...most modern and attractive nations in the world. From an economy based on exporting soldiers, the Swiss have diversified to become a provider of expensive manufactured goods as well as the world's premier bankers. If there was ever a nation that could be described as a bastion of capitalism, Switzerland...
When black-ruled Zimbabwe was white-ruled Rhodesia, it was a bastion of conservatism and free enterprise. But last week, after four years of independence, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, 60, declared his intention to transform the former British colony into a one-party Marxist state. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the 6,000 delegates and visitors who had gathered at a race track in the capital of Harare for the first congress in 20 years of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The meeting was conducted in the finest leftist tradition, from rhythmic hand clapping...