Word: bulwarks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member of the Central Committee's Secretariat, Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov, admitting that Soviet industry had been slowed down by a top-heavy bureaucracy, buck-passing, lazy administration. Shops, depots, harbor and railroad works, he said, were suffering a "reign of dirt." Dirt, he said, is "the bulwark of capitalist traditions." It was interesting to note that Comrade Malenkov's sharpest criticisms were leveled at producers and transporters of goods destined for Germany: oil, ores, timber, wheat...
...under the political and moral pressure of the Yankee this sense of honor became incandescent and ran wild. The passion for rhetoric came to a boil; the Fire-Eater went to Washington (and has never left it); Jehovah became a tribal God and the South His last great bulwark; the Civil War was Armageddon...
...believe that the preservation of England should be a primary aim of the United States. The nation that is putting up so valiant a fight against the forces of aggression is, if only incidentally, serving as a bulwark of the unprepared western hemisphere against the common enemy. It is with a purely selfish aim in mind that this country must flood Britain with the aid which the defenders need so badly. Guns and planes and shells and ships must flow in a ceaseless stream from this hemisphere to the other. An arsenal we must be, not because we love...
...United Automobile Workers, determined to break through Henry Ford's old, stout bulwark of antiunionism, still claimed heatedly that 300 men laid off at the River Rouge plant had been fired on account of union activities. Ford maintained that it was a seasonal slump, shooed union officials out of its yard...
...reached only after a careful rehash of the previous ten years of her life, beginning when she was 15. This series of flashbacks first finds her as the society-struck daughter of a poor Philadelphia family from the wrong side of the tracks. Later she meets Wyn, a bulwark of the Main Line upper crust takes a job as his secretary. Their romance, marriage and divorce are tainted by their irreconcilable social positions which Wyn's stuffy family never let her forget. That is the shadow over Kitty Foyle's youth...