Word: bastioned
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...days the Foreign Ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey met in London to discuss the burning topic that was disrupting their NATO friendship. The problem was Cyprus, a British colony and British bastion in the Mediterranean...
...Disraeli's great opponent Gladstone urged that Cyprus be given to Greece. Britain formally offered it to Greece during World War I, as an inducement to get Greece into the war, but the Greeks refused. Now, having withdrawn from Suez, Britain has made Cyprus her eastern Mediterranean bastion. The British will never leave, said Britain's Colonial Secretary a year ago. (Never is a word British diplomats are never supposed...
...nearby Greeks than they do with their rulers in distant Great Britain. Bearded Archbishop Makarios has been leading an agitation for enosis (union) with Greece. The 100,000 Turks on the isle prefer British to Greek rule. As for the British, who have made Cyprus their Middle East bastion since evacuating Suez, Churchill's government last year announced that Britain would never leave Cyprus...
...quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress when they cultivated their own . . . peculiar genius." Justice Buchanan concluded: "Regulation of the marriage relation is, we think, distinctly one of the rights guaranteed to the states and safeguarded by that bastion of states' rights, somewhat battered perhaps, but still a sturdy fortress . . . the tenth section of the Bill of Rights: 'The powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people...
...Singapore, bastion of British strength in Southeast Asia, the Communists at last felt strong enough to attack in the open. For months they had worked to infiltrate the local Chinese, who make up 80% of the city's 1,200,000 population. They wormed their way into control of unions, and organized a handy riot squad of 3,000 students (whose schools, say wags, now teach "reading, rioting and 'rithmetic"). To pay their way, they shook down wealthy Chinese merchants, those shrewd barometers of "who's ahead," who have become convinced that Red Peking...