Word: dikes
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...could become a threat to his armies in the northern Caucasus. Those armies had already been pushed back from Ordzhonikidze and the Grozny oilfields. Now they faced the danger of being cut off. A hole anywhere along the front-from the Caucasus to Leningrad-might open the dike to a Red flood...
...thousand dollars a week looks large in the absolute, but it breaks down to only a quarter per man. From one point of view, the Harvard contribution may be only a drop in the bucket; from another, it is the finger in the dike...
...riots, revolution, chaos-during which he was imprisoned for a few days by radical upstarts. In the 19205 he saw a crucifying inflation. In 1931 he saw six or seven million restless unemployed. And he saw in Hitler a potential guarantor of order and prosperity, a holder of the dike against Bolshevist Russia...
...more hole in the dike around the Axis was plugged...
...Artist Dike is not even tempted to bite the hand that feeds him. He thinks Disney's Night on Bald Mountain "the most mature statement" ever made in animated cartoons, believes that Disney's mouse-opera presents a great future for artists-perhaps the missing link between the artist and the public. Says he: "You feel as though you were part of something pretty big and important when you work on a Disney film. One of the greatest things Disney offers an artist is the discipline of having to sell his stuff by making definite and specific statements...