Word: bulwarking
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...British delegations were due to arrive. The Russians were jamming Radio Peking but let the Voice of America come in loud and clear. Faced with the open Chinese challenge to Soviet leadership of world Communism, Nikita Khrushchev may want to ease tensions with the West, both to bulwark his position at home and to demonstrate the genuineness of his much-heralded coexistence policy abroad. But whether Khrushchev wants it badly enough to make some really meaningful concessions is still another question...
Last week in Parliament, suave Interior Minister Johannes de Klerk blandly denied Colored leaders' charges that the government is deliberately siphoning off the light-skinned in order to increase South Africa's white population as a bulwark against the huge black majority. De Klerk explained that in issuing white identity cards to the 300 Cape families, his officials were only trying to "act humanely" and give borderline cases "the benefit of the doubt...
...nine years which have followed France's defeat in the Indo-Chinese war, the United States has poured three billion dollars into South Vietnam to make that country a bulwark against Communism. If American aid had succeeded in its goal, Cold War expediency might have justified President Ngo Dinh Diem's nepotism, his thousands of political prisoners, censorship of the press, and concentration camps, where peasants who may be Viet Cong guerillas are quarantined from guerillas who may be peasants...
...have. Unfortunately. Pennsylvania stands today as a prime example of outmoded and inefficient state government. One item alone stands like a millstone around our neck. I refer to the mammoth spoils system-the worst in the nation. Pennsylvania must clean its own house before she can stand as a bulwark against the monster bureaucracy that daily swells larger in Washington...
...Fordham lost only two games, and Vince Lombardi helped bulwark the best-remembered line in college football history. Wrote Columnist Dan Parker...