Word: entrenchment
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June: Premier Laval showed his tough Auvergnat mettle by holding up the Hoover One-Year Moratorium singlehanded, hurling his famed defy?"Presi-dent Hoover can entrench himself behind his Congress and I can entrench myself behind the Chamber"?and hanging on doggedly until the Moratorium was modified into a form acceptable to France...
...trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands of miles of unknown country along the river mouths of the Orinoco and the Great Amazon, long coastal stretches of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Northern Brazil, and successfully established three sections of their international route over territory where foreign lines had tried to entrench themselves and failed in spite of heavy state subsidies...
Ever since Mussolini seized power, Gabriele d'Annunzio has been engaged in a canny campaign to entrench his own popularity with the working classes, which were disgruntled by the brusque labor policy of the black shirted Dictator...
...year at Waverly tonight. Lieutenant Morize will be in charge and will conduct the exercise in two phases. The first phase will be the pursuit, emphasizing especially the role of the smaller units in this action. After the pursuit has been carried as far as possible, the troops will entrench hastily. Then the second phase of the exercise will commence, The men who have been taking part in the pursuit are supposed to be exhausted and they will be relieved theoretically by a fresh set. These two parts of the exercise, however, will be conducted separately and independently...