Word: bulwark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Shah's military machine frightened some Arab neighbors, the U.S. looked on it as a bulwark against the spread of Soviet influence in the Middle East, and President Nixon gave the Shah carte blanche to buy all the American weapons he desired...
...Iranian dynasties, and they encouraged racism towards non-Persian-speaking minorities in Iran as well as nearby nations. A special military guard was stationed on most large university campuses to mute student opposition. The number of students tortured, lost or murdered is unkown. Yet the universities remained a bulwark of opposition to the Shah and his cultural agression...
...center forward, St. Louis led the team in scoring for the third year in a row. Johnson provided the bulwark of the defense at left halfback...
...proposed reform of petty apartheid, Botha has no intention of altering the long-range goal of Nationalist policy: maintaining white sovereignty in South Africa as head of a "constellation of states," that might include ten quasi-autonomous tribal homelands, as well as Zambia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as a bulwark against Communist expansion. If these measures fail to gain South Africa's security, some Afrikaners are contemplating more drastic steps. Predicted an influential Afrikaner last week: "In ten years' time, the army will appoint the civilians, and no one, black or white, will have to vote...
...Cambridge by his close friend Guy Burgess. "I was persuaded that I could best serve the cause of antifascism by joining him in his work for the Russians." It seemed to him at the time, Blunt explained, that the Communist Party and the Soviet Union "constituted the only firm bulwark against fascism, since the Western democracies were taking an uncertain and compromising attitude toward Germany...