Word: bulwarks
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...users know, journalese is a formidable bulwark against libel, candor and fresh utterance. Any threat to its state-of-the-art ground-breaking terminology would have a chilling effect on everybody, especially us award- winning journalists...
...Above all we need the influence of a tough minded citizenry, which is the best bulwark against the belief that America is endowed with some superior virtue," Bok told the seniors...
...Best and the Brightest of Kennedy's day fought World War II to save the possibilities of freedom, helped rebuild war-ravaged Europe as a bulwark of the West and launched the world's free-market economies on the greatest surge of growth ever. Even if the tragedy of Viet Nam is entered on the debit side, this record of achievement remains a challenge for their children to match...
...last bulwark of the old world is giving way. Plain doctoring rest in peace. Boston and Harvard physicians, and physicians across the country, are learning how to play politics and manipulate the media to get their share--just like diplomats, farmers, and terrorists...
...Administration fears a horrifying, though hardly realistic, potential scenario: the Sandinista army storming up though Honduras, linking forces with its revolutionary allies in El Salvador, and driving on through Guatemala and into Mexico. The prospect of an armed Communist bulwark on America's southern flank is what Reagan dreads most. But the governments of Nicaragua's neighbors do not seem as concerned, in part because they believe the U.S. would immediately jump to the rescue. "We're not really afraid of a Sandinista invasion," says one Honduran military officer. "They wouldn't make it to Tegucigalpa before the 82nd Airborne...