Word: fiefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...district, in the words of author George V. Higgins, "is a reasonably homogeneous fief in which Democratic loyalists constituted just under 41 percent of the voters...
...that won't happen if they stay comfortable within the confines of Harvard's judicial fief. And that would be a real crime...
...sturdy vehicle that liberated India from white sahibs, created a promising republic and shaped a sense of common purpose among a kaleidoscopic variety of / religions, complexions, castes and tongues. But if the party had once relied on secularism and consensus building, in more recent years it became the fief of one family. Devoted to her country as she was, Indira cultivated the idea that India would come apart at the seams if a Gandhi did not clutch the threads...