Word: bulwarked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulwark. It had been just 25 years since Guy with his fiddle, brother Carmen with his saxophone and brother Lebert with his trumpet had crossed over from London, Ont. to Cleveland, fired by Paul Whiteman's records, to get their own band into the big time. It had been 20 years since the band began its first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since...
...bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands for." In her external relations, Adenauer sees Germany as the eastern bulwark of a free Europe; to fit her into her place he favors a competitive economy based on the principles of "free private initiative and profit-sharing for the worker." He speaks fervently of the mission of Christian democracy, not for Germany alone but for all Europe...
...Pope had set up a spiritual bulwark against communism. Two days later at The Hague, Bible-quoting Anglican Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Western Union's military chief...
Armie Essayan will be the starting catcher, filling in for first string receiver Cliff Crosby who was injured in the New Haven contest. Essayan is not the defensive bulwark that was Crosby and Eli base runners three times stole second base on him. Nevertheless, he atoned for this weakness at New Haven by leading the team in hitting with three for four...
...period when a good many Americans resented the Legion's big-stick and big-talk policy. The 75th Congress, faithfully mirroring the mood of the U.S. public, dug itself in behind a bulwark of neutrality legislation and arms embargoes, and hoped that Europe's troubles would disappear if no one noticed them. The Secretary of War, Harry Woodring of Kansas (a "sincere pacifist," Louis Johnson later called him), felt the same...