Word: bulwark
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...have never seen a European here vent childlike emotions on a small native child. That such a thing can occur in the U.S.A. is sufficient evidence of the immaturity of the people concerned to cause us grave doubts of the fitness of the U.S.A. to be a bulwark against Communism...
...University Directory of Officers and Students, a traditional bulwark of masculinity, lists 'Cliffies in its 1960-61 edition...
...here too much sex, or needless talk about it, at times on the commercial rather than compulsive side. And there is too strained a dual happy ending, a sense of Williams propelling himself too far in the opposite direction, trading claws for Santa Claus. Moderating his pessimism could greatly bulwark his power; but virtually shedding it is quite something else...
...yards on the ground (Hugh Scott contributed 145, John Sullivan 89) and 94 in the air (Sullivan completed five for six for 65 yards, Scott passed for the other 29) for an incredible total of 386 yards in its losing effort against Yale. Previous to that game Yale's bulwark defense, rated second only to Harvard's, had allowed only 6.4 points and 206.2 yards per Ivy game...
Whatever their differences in outlook, the nations of the center cling to three beliefs: 1) they see the U.N. as the bulwark of their independence, 2) they fear nuclear doom from the angry opposition of East and West, 3) they do not want to be pushed around by the great powers. The Big Five of neutralism-Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia -are magnetic, colorful and messianic personalities, but too much so. The most effective work has often been done by second-echelon diplomats: men like Burma's U Thant...