Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First of all, the article states that the "U.S. Government has been fighting a rearguard action against universality as applied to Red China," and further that the founders of the U.N. took it (universality of membership) as a basic assumption back...
...Soviet satellites, has endorsed the principle of universality of UN membership. This was the principle that the League of Nations suicidally repudiated, and the founders of the UN took it as a basic assumption back in 1945. During the past ten years, the U.S. Government has been fighting a rearguard action against universality as applied to Red China. The United States' gradual defeat seems much less discouraging than the realization that it has been in the wrong all along...
...effect unless they are soon and sharply confined. There are endless skeins of intrigue and sabotage being woven here by lower-echelon Frenchmen, many of whom will privately admit that they would like nothing better than to see the Diem government collapse. French colonialism may be fighting only a rearguard action, but so far it is surprisingly effective...
...officials anxiously trying to help, "is stuck together by Scotch tape, bits of string and putty.") The French, striving to maintain by fair means and by sly means a remnant of influence and profit in the land they have exploited for seven decades, obstruct him with the wily rearguard maneuvers of colonialism...
...recent years the Dukes of Devonshire have been fighting a rearguard action against the welfare state. High death duties were making it difficult for them to bequeath their treasures intact to posterity. In 1926 the ninth Duke of Devonshire did what he could to preserve Chatsworth by turning the whole estate into a stock company and signing over most of its shares to his son. Twenty years later the son, by then tenth duke, a crusty veteran of Gallipoli and France, negotiated a contract by which his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch, as trustees, would take over...