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The Christians gradually captured and annexed the former bastions of Moorish rule; in 1236, Córdoba fell to James the Conqueror, followed by Sevilla in 1248.
However, in New York and Chicago--the largest bastions of organized crime--Jewish and Italian gangs (not Sicilian Mafiosi) dominated.
The English-speaking world, expecially Great Britain, Canada, the U.S.A., and even India claim to be the bastions of democracy, which clearly should not recognize caste or class distinctions.
Its strong bastions and high ‘curtains’ were never taken by an enemy.
Lew Miller's decision had been a practical one: he felt it foolish to sacrifice the sales of many thousands of copies of the dictionary in the Bible Belt and other puritanical bastions of conservatism like Texas and California merely for the sake of a “couple of four-letter words.”