Word: bulwarks
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...into a mad hate-love affair. Its attraction could magnetize the man as certainly as it could rot his art. As the peeling Dr. Eckleberg--monument to America's first age of advertising and god of the ash heaps--mocked the death of Gatsby's dreams, so Hollywood--monster bulwark of materialism and smug summit of the equation--tortured Fitzgerald. Yes, the place could be as hostile to Fitzgerald as West Egg had been to Gatsby. Though both could dream unto death, neither could ever be of either place. But Fitzgerald had the distance to see this. The rich were...
...staff--disagree with this decision. We think that advertisements for organizations with purposes plausibly described as genocidal can reasonably be called offensive. A newspaper ought not to sell its space to people using it, not for rational or political persuasion, but to strengthen, without attempting to defend, an indefensible bulwark of reaction. We hope the Marines don't advertise here again...
Thus, financial expediency and the existence of a pool of willing graduate students who would have little other chance of gaining any teaching experience gave rise to a revivified tutorial program in which the teaching fellows served as the bulwark...
...wives. Then, with his back-country Florida drawl, he exhorts his fellow attorneys-this time about the need to weed out incompetent practitioners perhaps, even by requiring periodic retesting of lawyers. It is all said with an ingratiating charm and leavened with warming phrases about law as the "major bulwark between man and his government." At the finish, there is a loud ovation. But the radical proposition has not been missed. An elderly attorney corners the speaker afterward and growls: "You son of a bitch,I'm going to write a test that you'll fail...
...What cold comfort, except for the medical profession, is Reader Dr. Salvatore J. Angelo's "realization that American medicine is the last bulwark of free enterprise in the country, free to a great extent of government control...