Word: bastion
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...three special issues of "the oldest college daily" contained helpful hints on careers in advertising, insurance, and Wall Street. In addition to lavish advertising displays, included were such articles as "Insurance is Explosive as Ever," by a 70-year-old specialist: "Investment Banking: Bastion of Free World," by a stock broker; and "Schweppes in America: A Personal approach," by Commander Edward Whitchead...
...sedate. Some Reds were undoubtedly involved, but it seemed to be the work mostly of a mixed lot of opportunistic politicians hoping to exploit nationalist feeling. Still, American and Filipino officials worried about the future of U.S.-Philippine relations and, indeed, about the stability of the strongest anti-Communist bastion in Southeast Asia. Given the deteriorating situation in South Viet Nam and the Communist menace to the whole region, the Philippine Republic, which is often hopefully regarded as the showcase of U.S. style democracy in Asia, becomes increasingly important...
...write this election eve, the moths have gathered in front of the fluorescent screens. Newspaper editors in their city rooms all over the country are preparing the final flatulent belch to an already prolonged, parataxic monologue. Soon, I hope, the air will clear, empty prediction will withdraw to its bastion on the sports pages, and newspapers will return to their permanently valuable fare of weddings, obituaries, and corruption...
...Without the Supreme Court's Black, Marshall and other "judicial activists," the Constitution would be a collection of hypocritical platitudes serving only the rights of the few. Instead, in their hands, it has been a marvellously adaptable living document, standing as a bastion against inequality and privilege, oppressive state power, public prejudice, and majority suppression of minority belief, action, writing, and speech. Your article should be required reading...
Cliffies greeted the innovations in Lamont with general delight. While one meek upperclassman admitted that "it's kind of sad to see the last bastion crumble," most sympathized with one militant who said, "This is just the beginning. We will take over...