Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cork for Svengali. The time is after Stalingrad; the place is the Black Sea area. The German situation is hopeless, and the task of Corporal Rolf Steiner's wounded platoon is near-suicidal. Its job is to stay behind as a rearguard while the rest of the battalion withdraws. In the fluid state of the front, this means only one thing, that the hapless platoon will soon be a cork abob in a sea of Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner...
...decoy in crossing over to their unbelieving buddies. Steiner is made a sergeant on the spot and gets a furlough, but all he and his men have really won is a brief reprieve, not a full pardon from death. The whole crumbling German front is itself a rearguard desperately parrying Russian advances and encirclements...
Last week reputable union leaders who fear Hoffa's influence on the U.S. labor movement had reason to hope that the tough little man from Detroit had finally overreached himself. In New York a fierce rearguard action by Hoffa opponents threatened to throw into the courts Hoffa's scheme for seizing control of the Joint Council; the Hoffa-I.L.A. pact was temporarily stymied. None of this seemed to abash Jimmy Hoffa, a man who has survived the assaults of congressional investigations, the courts and rival union leaders. "Jimmy Hoffa," says Jimmy, "can take care of himself...
...United Nations is based merely upon an observance and respect for the principles set forth in that organization's Charter. In reference to Red China Mr. Coons states, "The United States has been fighting a battle for the specific provisions of the U.N. Charter. This is not a rearguard action, but a forth-right action." In concluding, also referring to Red China, he says, "If we are to bring in immoral 'aggressor' nations to make the decisions in the U.N. what will happen to the high ideals that were expressed in the Charter?" I consider this point of view...
...United States has been fighting a battle for the specific provisions of the U.N. Charter. This is not a rearguard action, but a forthright action. Until the Charter is amended it is the duty of the United States to stand by the principles of the original treaty. We can see that universality was not the basic assumption of the founders of the U.N. if we accept the Charter as an authoritative source. If we can't accept the Charter as an expression of the desires of the founders, whose word can we accept? The word of Alger Hiss...