Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swim, team we wish a fifty-yard pool, and an electrical bulwark like Yale's seems only right. After a decade of delay, it would also be nice if the HAA brought the gallery of team portraits up to date. (That 's what those empty wood frames at the end of the pool...
...decisive and prompt action taken in Korea? Can the Republicans claim credit for the Marshall Plan, for the Mutual Security Program, and for the strong alliance which has developed with the democracies of the West? Can the Republicans take credit for the establishment of Israel as a bulwark for freedom in the Middle East? Or can they claim that they are responsible for checking the spread of Communism in Europe...
...Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids; too high a percentage of them are just fat. They must be the bulwark of the corset industry...
...turned the whole matter over to Sheriff Tim Mc-Cullough. The sheriff decided that services henceforth will be held in the chapel where the evangelists can reach only prisoners who want to hear them. "It's a dirty shame," said one evangelist. "Why, we've been the bulwark against Communism in that jail for many years...
First Challenge. Lonardi's talk was plainly disquieting to Argentina labor, which now feared a drive to freeze wages and raise lagging productivity. Toward week's end, leaders of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), once a major bulwark for Peron and currently embroiled in a power struggle with rival labor chiefs, threatened to call a general strike. But Lonardi met the challenge head on. He suspended every union official in the country, empowered army officers to organize and run off union elections for 120 days hence. The strike threat petered...