Word: bulwarks
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...Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom of The Netherlands" encompassed Flanders and the northern French provinces. "Peace and the boundless realm of the Emperor were finally secured," wrote Poet Thomasset. Ulrich, with mighty Germany as a bulwark against the east, turned his eyes to the west, where lay "a mammon empire-America...
...good for them, and for which Hitler would compel them to fight again-a cause of which they were not fully aware: to preserve Western Christendom from destruction by Prussia, the comparatively new, barbaric overlord of an otherwise civilized Germany; 2) that Christian Poland was the great bulwark and friend of Western Europe...
Sober, solid, and imposing as the Tafts who own it is the Cincinnati Times-Star. Like the Tafts. it is a bulwark...
...standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph Pew Sr. bought up oil properties right & left, moved to Philadelphia, died there in 1912, founder of Sun Oil Co., a Presbyterian bulwark, philanthropist, multimillionaire...
...year the Crimson Rugby team emerged victorious over Long Island University by a 19 to 3 margin Saturday on the home field. With this win, their fifth straight, the Ruggers have placed themselves in the top position of the Eastern Rugby Union League standings. Lloyd Lockridge was a bulwark in the Crimson line...