Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last bulwark of conservatism...
Caught up in their careers like middle-class people the world over, these Mexicans are obviously not revolutionaries in the old Latin American sense. With their stake in society, they are rather a new bulwark against the succession of rebellions that kept Mexico on edge through much of its history. They are nevertheless the products of the great social upheaval that took the lives of some 1,500,000 Mexicans a generation or so ago. Until the Mexican revolution, the nation suffered from a form of split personality, oppressed or angered by the ever-present reminders of a high Indian...
...Moscow as no German has been since the days of Von Ribbentrop. In a sudden onrush of vodka, the workers' rebellion of June 17 and the puppet regime's consequent loss of face, were supposed to be forgotten. Malenkov toasted the East German regime as "the bulwark of peaceful forces of all Germany"; he promised to give it "full support and help." A Kremlin communiqué showed what Malenkov had in mind. He offered...
...greatest bulwark against Communism in this country is precisely that kind of political liberalism found in the Protestant Church and which Mr. Matthews fears...
...years ago a dispute started when Sears objected to Osmond K. Frankael '08, vice-president of the Lawyer's Guild, speaking at the Law School. Sears pointed to a report of the House Un-American Affairs Committee which called the Guild "the foremost bulwark of the Communist party...