Word: bulwarks
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...instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam. Nor could they rival the depth of Rembrandt's grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying-in Room evokes, in the space between the shadowed head of Rembrandt's pregnant wife and the sewing hands of her nurse, a domestic silence...
Woods, described as a "bulwark in the line" by a 1919 Crimson sportswriter, helped spur the football team to a 10-3 victory over Yale and a 7-6 win over the University of Oregon at the Rose Bowl New Year...
...this atmosphere, the U.S. beckons as a safe haven, both for foreign companies and wealthy individuals. Today, says Rob Hazelhoff, a director of Holland's Algemene Bank Nederland, "most entrepreneurs regard the U.S. as the last bulwark of capitalism. They feel that America can hold out, and this is the main psychological factor behind the rising investment." Profit margins of U.S. corporations are now almost twice those of European firms, partly because productivity is higher. The U.S. has become something of a cheap-labor market in comparison with its European trading partners. Until the early 1970s, European labor...
Arthur Burns, LL.D., Federal Reserve Board chairman. He acts as the bulwark between society and inflation...
...supposed repression of South Korean dissidents. Besides relying on the intentionally vague but emotionally arousing word "regime," this statement clarifies neither the living conditions of South Korean citizens nor the nature of their protests against the government. The letter then refers to "Harvard's long history as a bulwark of U.S. imperialism," another blatant example of verbal deceit. Such a comment makes no relevant point about either Harvard or American history, and it has no function other than to incite the uninformed passions that the League seeks to exploit...