Word: bulwark
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...Cornell squash team, which rejoined the Ivy League last year after a 15-year hiatus, graduated its bulwark player, All-American number-one seed Paul Gardner. Without a stronghold of incoming players to rely on, it's having difficulty adjusting to the changes this year...
Embarrassed Catholic leaders have tried to stress the basilica's importance as a bulwark of Christianity. But others say Houphouet-Boigny has more earthly aims: to use the Pope's visit to clinch a seventh successive five-year term in the upcoming presidential elections...
...years, the alliance has been a bulwark against the Soviets. Now Washington wants it to ensure a U.S. presence in Europe. -- Gambling starts a Mohawk tribal...
...what's the problem? In a party that has made social welfare programs the bulwark of its agenda, Jackson's insistent criticism of Reagan's failure to promote social justice should be put under the spotlight, not hidden under a bushel...
...leaders -- to come and shake their fists at the Wall and call down imprecations against those who had conceived and built it. But the barrier also stood as a reminder of the limits of power in the nuclear age. Paradoxically, the Wall, despised though it was, acted as a bulwark for stability in Europe, ratifying two spheres of influence and thus maintaining the alternative of cold war to hot war. It was the most palpable evidence of a deep wound in European civilization -- and it is finally gone...