Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clash. The man he fired was a military hero, idolized by many. MacArthur had done a superb job as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in the occupation and reconstruction of Japan. He was the strongest bulwark against the Far East's Communists, who had long cried for his head. If Douglas MacArthur had an admirer in the White House set, it was Truman himself, an ex-artilleryman with an innate respect for soldiering...
...veterans form the second base combination, and the should prove a thoroughly capable defensive bulwark. Captain John White was nimble, if not thoroughly reliable, at short last year, and he appears to have settled down in the field. He is, of course, a definite asset...
Sears' letter to Griswold objected to the University's permitting Osmond K. Fraenkel '08, vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild, to speak at the Law School. Sears pointed to the report of the House Un-American Activities Committee which called the National Guild "the foremost bulwark of the Communist party...
...Harvard Lawyers Guild, which sponsored the talk, distributed literature before the lecture replying to Sears' charges. Sears demanded the suppression of the guild on the grounds that the House Un-American Activities Committee had called it "the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party...
...reply, Sears said that the findings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which called the National Guild the "foremost bulwark of the Communist party in this country," were "made in good faith and based on reliable information...