Word: rear-guard
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...rear-guard pot shot at inflation, the Federal Reserve Board last week ordered its 6,600 member banks to up their reserves by one-seventh ($1,200,000,000), effective Nov. 1. This puts reserve requirements for demand deposits at the legal maximum, means that New York and Chicago banks must hold 26% of their deposits in reserve instead of 22¾%. For other city banks the rate is upped from 17½% to 20%, for country banks from 12% to 14%. All banks will thus have less money to lend...
...Hitler swept on to victory, although Britain managed to evacuate some 75% of her troops, thanks to a valiant rear-guard action at: 1. Salonika...
...rear-guard action against a benign monarchy of wealth is deliciously overwhelmed by her munitions-making father (Robert Morley), her agnostic sweetheart (Rex Harrison, George VI's double), and especially by an unreconstructible ruffian (Robert Newton), who very nearly runs away with the picture...
...British were baffled. They had thought this would be a major push. They had withdrawn hastily, scarcely offering rear-guard resistance, apparently willing to fall back 120 miles to Matrûh, the railhead from Alexandria, where the main British force was based...
...during the war performed several exploits almost as fantastically courageous as the Gallipoli swim. Between wars he stayed in the Army, and in 1939 was given command of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In Greece he and his men piled up a composite record of courage in successive rear-guard actions...