Word: bulwarks
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...current Department of Justice's fashion of trying the suit first in the newspapers, Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge got off a quick statement to bulwark his boss: "The present suit is one of a series . . . to eliminate the effect of cartels on the American economy. . . . The fact that British, French, German, Japanese, Belgian and Italian, as well as American, companies are involved indicates the scope of the alleged conspiracy and the importance of the Government's action...
Fighting raged through the night on the approaches to the third line, the main bulwark the Germans had erected in five months of quiet. A wide belt of mines protected it, and along it were earthworks and pillboxed guns-25 to 40 of them to each mile. The Katushas and guns spoke again. Flamethrowers spat at the strong points until their timbered linings blazed. By dusk on Saturday Marshal Konev knew that he had what he wanted: a definite break through the deep German line...
...networks, independent U.S. radio operators) begged him not to quit. There were even suggestions that the industry provide funds to raise his $10,000 salary to $50,000. Once they thought that Fly wanted to control the content of their programs. They knew now that he had been their bulwark against Government ownership...
...From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
...they think he was bargaining for in Italy? ("Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terrors, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." No survival for Britain and-to the degree in which Britain was the bulwark of Western civilization-no survival for civilization...