Word: bulwarking
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Mann believes that the real hope for a peaceful, prosperous Latin America in the future lies beyond the Alianza-in each nation's pride in itself. Says he: "There are two kinds of nationalism afoot in Latin America. The first kind, I believe, is the best bulwark we've got against the Communists, and the Latin American who doesn't sense it isn't doing his country a bit of good. This kind of nationalism means knowing who you are and for what your country stands. But there's another kind-xenophobic nationalism. This...
Shaven Head. Ne Win's only visible support remains the 50,000-man Burmese army, but there is evidence that even this last bulwark is being undermined; popular Brigadier Aung Gyi, who disagrees with Ne Win's policies, is in exile in a Buddhist monastery where, his head shaven, he spends his time meditating...
...bulwark impregnable to the new doctrines, in which Throne and Religion can take shelter confident that not one single idea of those which are stirring up the world will penetrate within...
...symbol of the change-resisting spirit of Spain, as Philip II defined it when he decreed its construction. Now celebrating its fourth centenary, the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial is the largest and most ambitious Renaissance building in Spain and still, in esthetic effect, an impregnable bulwark...
...make up its mind. Its trouble stems from the fact that nobody seems to know exactly what it stands for." The vacillations of modern-minded Anglican theologians and moralists are a prime target of satire-as witness Punch's recent capsule description of a fictional "Bishop of Bulwark": "Advanced churchman. Believes the word 'not' to be an interpolation in several commandments. Makes Marxist speeches in Lords. Dislikes being called a Christian. Collects butterflies...