Word: bulwarks
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...Last Bulwark. Conservative Argentine society was shaken right down to its stirrups when Peron moved in on the Socie-dad Rural, organization and stronghold of the landed aristocracy. Peron remembered the boos he got (in absentia) last year at the Sociedad's famed cattle show. At this year's, he was determined to get the cheers. A first, necessary step was a new and pro-Peron executive committee. Last week, the old executive committee obligingly resigned...
...whole trouble seems to me to be that the Allies want, on the one hand, to enforce with the utmost strictness the terms of the Versailles Treaty, and, on the other hand, want to maintain Germany in a condition where she can be a military bulwark against Russian Bolshevism. These two attitudes cannot be reconciled except by the exercise of the most farseeing statesmanship; and I doubt whether the men who are now directing the affairs of Europe are farseeing statesmen...
...functioning as Lever Brothers & Unilever Ltd. (with a British-controlled twin in The Netherlands, Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V.), this private empire is a prime bulwark of Britain's reconstruction economy. As it waxes or wanes, so will much of the economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...
...international optimism to vote unqualified approval of the United Nations Charter. An Administration still vibrant with the ideals of its late President had concentrated every form of pressure and political maneuvering to coerce all but the most recalcitrant of the Senators into hearty consent. Having thus hurdled the bulwark of traditional American isolationism, international planners peered with sparkling eyes into a future of unthrobbing war drums and furled battle flags. A people eager to believe took no stock in the gloomy fore-bodings of scattered pessimists...
...story has been told many times, and more dramatically, but seldom with more balanced compassion or gentler insight. The Bulwark's closing chapters, in which Solon Barnes realizes what his good intentions have wrought, and is battered into a simpler, humbler kind of religious understanding, are of a searching, level, melancholy beauty which cannot be expected of any living American writer...