Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Cooney Weiland's defense will be nearly the same as it was last year. All-American Dave Johnston, Mike Patterson, Harry Howell, and Ron, Thomson will again bulwark Weiland's tight defensive zone, and the success of many of the games will depend on them. Wood will be guarding the Crimson nets, but he is going to have a tough time filling the shoes of last year's Bob Bland...
...opposing forces in the country. But the CIA and the U.S. military mission in the field disagreed, opposed dealing with any Laotian leader who seemed soft on Communism. They argued that the U.S.-trained and equipped Royal Laotian Army of 28,000 men under General Phoumi was the only bulwark against a Red takeover. The Pentagon generally backed the CIA, but with the proviso that, under no conditions, should U.S. armed forces be plunged into the landlocked, trackless jungles of Laos...
Georgia's Richard Russell rose in the crowded Senate chamber last week and surveyed his club with fatherly approval. The Senate, drawled Russell, is "a bulwark against precipitate action inspired by the unthinking passions of a great mob." The "great mob" in this case included the Kennedy Administration, the Senate leadership of both parties, the Civil Rights Commission and most U.S. Senators. They wanted to destroy the literacy test, the South's most effective device for denying the vote to Negroes. And Russell's tightly disciplined team of filibustering Southern Democrats held the bulwark with ease...
...Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism, and last...
Pros over Cons. The governmental bulwark against dangerous drugs is the Food & Drug Administration, part of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. It is a relatively small bureau (2,423 employees, current budget $21.854.000), and two-thirds of its inspectors police purity of food products; the rest work on drugs and cosmetics. Its main power over drugs comes from a 1938 law (passed after an early version of sulfanilamide in a poisonous solvent killed 107 people) that authorizes FDA to require satisfactory prelicensing proof that a drug is safe...