Word: bulwarks
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...Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids; too high a percentage of them are just fat. They must be the bulwark of the corset industry...
...VIII when he divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in favor of Anne Boleyn. The mistresses and mis-marriages of the first royal Hanovers newly come from Germany were far more scandalous than the prospect that scandalizes churchgoing Britons today; but in those days, royalty operated behind a bulwark of aristocracy that fenced it off safely from the people...
First Challenge. Lonardi's talk was plainly disquieting to Argentina labor, which now feared a drive to freeze wages and raise lagging productivity. Toward week's end, leaders of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), once a major bulwark for Peron and currently embroiled in a power struggle with rival labor chiefs, threatened to call a general strike. But Lonardi met the challenge head on. He suspended every union official in the country, empowered army officers to organize and run off union elections for 120 days hence. The strike threat petered...
...NATO. Replied Pearson: "We might agree to leave NATO if you would agree to leave a lot of other things we'd like you to leave." The next day Pearson flew on toward Singapore, where he and other Colombo Plan representatives will try to work out ways to bulwark Southern Asia against the spread of Communism...
...partnership of Turkey and Greece within the NATO alliance. But by last week, that partnership was itself in danger of disintegration. Far from acting like NATO allies, the Greeks and Turks were bitterly at odds over Cyprus. Turkey, whose 440,000-man army is the West's strongest bulwark in the area, was so badly in debt that last summer private oil companies cut off its supplies until the government pays in cash. Cyprus itself, linchpin of the NATO area defense, was seething with pent-up troubles which the Greek radio, speaking for a shaky government, urged...