Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aboard the S.S. Independence this week in Manhattan, a bulwark-bulging guest list checked in for a voyage into 1968. As the Governors of 42 American states-21 Democrats, 21 Republicans-and 700 aides and journalists sailed off on an eight-day cruise to the Virgin Islands, it was not the wide blue Caribbean that absorbed their attention but the political waves back home that may well sweep a Republican President into the White House next year...
...Harvard, that bulwark of establishment liberalism, all this presents some very terrible problems. Privately, the deans think marijuana laws are as ridiculous as the rest of the intellectual world does. But there are pressures to contend with when you are running a college. Narcotics agents and outside police could call for a bust at any time, as they did last year at Princeton, Yale, and Cornell. The University could be placed in a very embarrassing and costly legal position if the family of a student convicted of drug offense should decide to sue Harvard after it was learned that...
...envisions any dramatic breakthrough in the military balance very soon. This prospect has already prompted both pro-and anti-war camps to cry ever more loudly for drastic changes in strategy, leaving President Johnson little choice but to press for considerably more substantial gains in the field to bulwark his Administration's showing before...
...brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries," remarked Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through...
...privacy from the intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial exploitation of sex, tabloid reporting of sordid sexual occurrences, wholly unsupervised after-school occupations. To fill the void left by the old safeguards, youngsters must be given a bulwark of factual knowledge and orientation...