Word: rearguard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reopened last week, and the curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping and bomb-throwing and shouting about "throwing the invaders into the sea." There was no other reason for U.S. troops to sneak away; brought in to stabilize a confused and desperate situation, provided with no clear directive on landing, and frequently under provocation from excitable rebels, they...
...desperate rearguard action, Army hinted reasonably that it would gladly let NASA have the jet propulsion lab and other installations if it could only keep Redstone-and there it would take on any chores NASA assigned. "All we need to do," Medaris argued, "is put up a new wicket gate where they can hand in their orders." Added point: if Army could prevent an ultimate decision by the President until year's end, it would probably get to keep Redstone for good. Under the law creating the civilian agency to control space operations, NASA cannot take over military facilities...
...clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty could do very much to take the sensation out of the story...
Wouldn't "Rearguard" have been a more appropriate title for our satellite project? JOHN JAXON-DEELMAN Los Angeles...
...wisecrack much repeated in the U.S. last week was that Project Vanguard, the U.S.'s earth-satellite program, ought to be renamed Project Rearguard. This clothed in humor the widespread feeling of resentment stirred up by the Russians' great cold-war propaganda victory. Inevitably, the question arose: Who's to blame...