Word: entrenchments
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...would exhaust and debilitate the victor as well as the vanquished. This enervated Germany would hardly be a threat to the Americas: after its wearying death-grapple with England and France, it would have to bring the other countries of Europe to a state of subjection and non-resistance, entrench its continental position enough to allow it to turn its eyes to this hemisphere, avoid war with Italy and Russia, and then attack South America. Meanwhile the United States would have had time and to spare, in which to make this hemisphere impregnable...
With the country against them, the Cabinet began to accuse Premier Hayashi of bungling what they had hoped would be a coup d'etat to entrench them more firmly. Last week he knew the game was up, resigned (TIME, June...
...state legislature is foolish enough to pass such a bill any attempt to arouse public opinion against it will but entrench them more firmly in their stubborn support; especially if the propaganda employed is so ridiculous as to construe the bill as a direct attack against all laborers. Obviously the only intelligent course of action is to await the arrival of a test case, or better still, create a test case, and push it to the Supreme Court. The opposition of ignorant propaganda to ignorant propaganda will inevitably produce a stupid mess...
Thereafter Judge Nields had to wade on through 826 affidavits offered by the company, denying vigorously that it had used threats or debauchery to entrench its own union...
...American Airways of which, after a bitter proxy fight, he soon captured control. With Avco's American Airways he got 28% of the mail. Now he was an insider instead of an outsider. The mail contract business being essentially political in nature, Mr. Cord naturally took steps to entrench himself with the coming administration. How far he went...