Word: bulwarks
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...Fiat. As the returns came in, disappointed Harry Truman decided that the Labor-Management Conference was his last bulwark against industrial strife. He summoned the delegates to the White House; all week long they trooped in to listen to a dead-serious plea for help...
Sitting pretty well left of center, Roth does not worry about a burgeoning U.S.S.R. He has nothing but contempt for the power politics which would use a strong and militaristic Japan as a bulwark against communism. In the same category, he places the Grew-inspired policy of catering to Hirohito "because he might turn out to be the sole stabilizing force" in a Nippon ruptured by defeat. Except, he says, for speeding the surrender (now accomplished), the U.S. cannot do business with the Emperor...
...first week of Allied victory, the Allied world dared to name its fear. The London Economist, long a bulwark of Anglo-Russian friendship, publicly examined the alternatives to a break with the Soviet Union. Ely Culbertson...
...written a biography of Hamilton.) The books are largely forgotten, and Senator Vandenberg is glad they are. But the inscription in one is a characteristic example of how faithfully Vandenberg represented, as he still represents, the popular thought of the day. He wrote: "Nationalism-not internationalism-is the indispensable bulwark of American independence...
...With Italy a hunger-anarchy, France a political economic chaos, Spain, peaceful and calm, is the next bulwark against the Red flood...