Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guard, and Taft and his mates carefully molded antagonism for Willkie with recent election gains to force the selection of a middle-of-the-road isolationist, Harrison Spangler, as national chairman. And in the same week, Taft busily announced support of John Bricker, another "balance the budget" bulwark for the 1944 nomination...
...status of Swede Anderson is pretty much a matter of conjecture, and Swede was not in uniform yesterday, but it is generally believed that the blond bulwark of the Crimson defense will be doing business at the same old stand on Saturday...
...Maltese Knights held her against the Turks. She became the bulwark of Christendom against the Infidel, grew to be an even stouter bulwark when Grand Master Jean de la Valette Parisot built the fortress city which was named after him and which stands today on the north shore like an amber rock pile in the Mediterranean's sapphire...
Anyone who has spent time and money learning about jazz soon finds that even his best friends can't stand the music he has grown to love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded...
...believe that this may well be disastrous. A liberal education has always been supposed to encourage the thought and reflection which enables men to criticize and direct society; it is a bulwark of democracy. To eliminate liberal education would greatly diminish the number of men so trained and thus would menace the democratic environment in which leaders of democracies should be trained in War as well as in Peace. Since there is likely to be a year between graduation from high school and induction into military service, we recommend that this year be used by those who so desire...