Word: bulwarking
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...performance of Crimson captain Alec Wiggin figures to be a key factor in the contest. Wiggin, who plays wing forward and has been the bulwark of Harvard's scrum this season, will test the strength of his ankle which has sidelined him for the past two weeks...
...threatened for giving holy communion to ex-whores and drunkards. But this brief issue is even more deeply tied to prevalent cultural beliefs and social restrictions. Because the population is growing while the land remains divided in agrarian units under a feudal hierarchy, a fearsome religion is the bulwark of the status quo, and inbred into the people. Only when her youngest daughter dies is Kristina convinced that God wants her family to move elsewhere; only when Danjell claims to have heard God's call to Abraham in his inner voice, saying, "Get the to a land that I will...
When members of the nine-nation Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC)-gathered in Seoul last week, no one needed to remind them that their organization was rapidly becoming outdated. When ASPAC was formed in 1966, Washington had hailed it as a bulwark of anti-Communist solidarity in Asia. In the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, however, many of ASPAC's members are now going to some lengths to play down that anti-Communist line in the hope of improving their own relations with China...
...cuts with an innate critical edge. But for those Young Turks who admire the man's human and artistic standards, while trying to influence larger audiences and so change an industry, the figure he and the rest of the good old-stylers assume is as much obstacle as bulwark...
...thinks, for example, that American feminists have underrated the strength of the family and spent too much time tilting at vulgar popularizations of Freud's penis-envy theory. Author Mitchell herself regards the family both as the greatest implement of women's oppression and be last bulwark of capitalism. A difficult, chilling book that makes clear low a socialist revolution can use the feminist movement, and vice versa...