Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department is one in which Coach Reggie Root has no worry. Dent, Jim McTernan, and Tim Hoopes are all outstanding flank men, and should cause the Crimson secondary no end of worry this afternoon. Gene Constant in has been a bulwark of the line from his right tackle post and has made more than his share of tackles in the season now nearly over. Center Bill Over lock has drawn considerable attention by his stellar backing up of the Eli line...
...rest of forward bulwark which is set for the starting whistle on Saturday consists of Loren MacKinney, left end, Pete Elser, left tackle; Lone Star Dietz, center; Don Lowry, right guard; Tom Gardiner, right tackle and Joe Koufman, left...
...leading statesman might well have made him sicker. It looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and the townsfolk, who formed the main bulwark of the kingdom; the great feudal nobles . . . played at high treason. ... As for the Protestants, they were a still greater danger, a State within the State." Menacing Spain had its fifth columns among Catholics and Huguenots. The Huguenots conspired with the Protestant Germans and with England, the Kremlin of the Reformation...
...SoldOut." The people of Rumania have been bled white with taxes in the past few years to build up an Army, an Air Force and the nearest thing in the Balkans to a Maginot Line - the Carol Line. These fortifications were to bulwark Rumania against an expected attack from Hungary. When in Vienna last fortnight Germany and Italy forced Rumania to give up one-half of Transylvania and the Carol Line to Hungary (TIME, Sept. 9), the instinctive reaction of many Rumanians was that the Government had let them be robbed. It took no great efforts of the Nazi Iron...
...faced west. Into the naval bases at Cavite, P. I. and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have gone 75-80 millions of dollars for defense against an invader from the Orient. But today, although the U. S. Army and Navy are beginning to develop Alaska air and sea bases as another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until the U. S. has a two-ocean fleet...