Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Durable Species. The coalition was not a development of the civil-rights fight. It was an old alliance which began developing during Franklin Roosevelt's second term. It fought a rearguard action against the New Deal. It would not be a hard & fast combination; there would be regroupings within it and shifts back to the Administration side...
...Rescue. At Pittsburgh, the labor and liberal leaders who run the Americans for Democratic Action (Leon Henderson, Walter Reuther, Jim Carey, David Dubinsky, et al.) could not bring themselves to a flat endorsement of Candidate Truman, but they let him down with some sugary words ("We appreciate his brave rearguard action in defense of our social and labor legislation"). They settled on a statement which said, in effect: "Please, General Eisenhower, rescue...
...brought to a successful end within three months. The Mediterranean would be neutralized by then, and the Soviet would only have to cover its European flanks against assault from the British Isles before embarking on the third phase. One hundred divisions or so are considered enough for this rearguard, of which some 50 would be composed of Bulgars, Yugoslavs and Czechoslovaks...
...valuation of his country's contribution to victory. Britons were in no doubt that their 20 years' resistance to Napoleon had been decisive. Austria believed that her support had tipped the balance; Prussia gloried in the exploits of her flaming youths, who had chivied Napoleon's rearguard on the way home from Moscow. Tsar Alexander was so sure he had won singlehanded that he managed to forget completely that he had been Napoleon's ally-until Napoleon had invaded Russia. He sternly charged the King of Saxony (who had backed the wrong horse too long) with...
...Heavy Pencil. But in this running rearguard action the editor gathered about him a corps of rising young writers, many of whom came to be known as "Henley's Young Men." Rudyard Kipling's earliest, most virile poems, Barrack Room Ballads, were printed first by Henley-as were the stories of the Polish emigrant, Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, sections of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the early lyrics of William Butler Yeats-and even the formal Henry James...