Word: bulwarking
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...troops. "You are now the first priority in my book," he told a Seventh Army unit at Gelnhausen. Such reassurance came none too soon for the Seventh, which stayed on in Europe at the end of World War II and has served for more than two decades as the bulwark of NATO's ground troops. With a strength of approximately 180,000 men, the Seventh will soon be the largest U.S. force overseas; troop strength in Viet Nam is now down to 215,000 and declining steadily. Despite its importance, however, the Seventh is an army twice lost-forgotten...
...frequent repetition of the phrase "academic community" in the Resolution is, of course, no accident. The CRR is the ultimate bulwark against the outside world. It keeps out "the coercive arm of the outside community," as Kilson put it. But while supporters of the CRR defend the concept of the separate academic community, they ignore that community's involvement in the outside world. It is this involvement which motivates most of the turmoil the CRR judges. It would be lovely to live in a world where a pure academic community can exist, where scholars needn't think about atrocities outside...
Like Foreigners. A basic problem is a shift in attitude toward soldiering in general. At West Point, which a young Pentagon lieutenant colonel irreverently calls "the first station of the cross" for Army hierarchy, some officers still see the service as the sole bulwark against national rot. But many of the cadets quickly shed their uniforms for civvies once they get home on leave, and explain to dates that they go to "an upstate New York college, or the U. Va., some place like that...
...current bulwark of this great order is Col. Arana Osorio. He is on top of the military heap ( equals president) today because...
...strongly religious country people who had been the bulwark of his support, they said, would be offended by his divorce and remarriage, and the younger voters, tired of the stigma Arkansas acquired for the Little Rock school crisis of 1957, would reject his old brand of polities...