Word: bulwarked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embark upon a general policy to bulwark the frontiers of freedom against the assaults of political despotism, one major frontier is no less important than another, and a decisive breach of any will inevitably threaten to engulf all. . . . Fragmentary decisions in disconnected sectors of the world will not bring an integrated solution...
Last year's front bulwark, Eddle Davis, commented that Harlow was one of the best playmakers in the game--"a great Tactician." Other members of the 1947 team agreed on this point...
Then the big C.I.O labor unions were heard from. The powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which, under the late Sidney Hillman, was the bulwark of New York's American Labor Party (and still is), said it wanted no part of a third party. So did gravel-voiced Joe Curran, president of the National Maritime Union...
Baldwin stated, "Many do not think that you can reconcile capitalism and democracy--and there is a lot to be said on their side." He added that democratic-socialism may well be the bulwark of human liberties and should Britain's experiment fail, chances of democracy in the world would be greatly dimmed...
...search for earthly realization of the values of Christ. Rejecting Church dogma as sterile and oppressive, he ultimately found his personal Christ in Communism. Yet Dreiser's moving desire to explain the life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution in the Quaker doctrine of "the inner light" which animated the life of Solon Banes, and which moved his daughter Etta to realize "the love and peace involved in consideration for others." In this frame, the study of Brahmanism becomes...