Word: bulwarks
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...Lieutenant Commander the Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy (heir to the ninth Baron Strabolgi), long a famed bulwark of Georgian Liberalism, grew so vexed at last with Mr. Lloyd George that he bolted without warning into the Laborite ranks of onetime (Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier Ramsay Macdonald...
Waterman is Bulwark of 1939 Defense...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, until recently "War lord of Central China," long a potent bulwark against Communism, found his forces crumbling and his officers deserting by dozens last week as he retreated from Hankow, his one-time stronghold on the Yangtze, to Chengchow in northern Honan Province...
...works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While the rise apace of the new west was so much a matter of fields, food, and transportation that less hardy, influences have been easily forgotten...
...score. The visitor's attack was far stronger throughout the game than that of the Cambridge eleven, and it was only the sterling net-guarding of the Crimson tender that kept the ball out of the Harvard cage on numerous occasions. J. A. MacKinnon '27 was also a bulwark on the defense, and cleared several threatening situations with long hoists down the field...