Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubles started when the Senate toughened his original Kennedy Bill, got grim when the President pushed the far tougher Landrum-Griffin bill through the House. As chairman of the Senate-House conference to resolve the differences between the two measures, he fought a union-side rearguard action against adoption of all Landrum-Griffin's tougher provisions, won enough concessions to avoid an all-out attack by angered labor leaders. Last week the powerful building trades (which, thanks to Kennedy's plugging, got special privileges in the new law) gave him a rising ovation at their annual convention...
...Sense of God. Mydans' mind is itself a kind of camera. He writes in pictures that illustrate life in swift, touching anecdotes and impressions: the wedding procession that moved along an Italian road on foot while up ahead, U.S. troops were in deadly battle with a German rearguard; or the terrible day when he was caught in a Japanese earthquake and watched in horror as rescuers sawed through the arm of a pinned victim. He recalls with fine comic effect two G.I.s in top hats putting on a mock duel in the Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat...
...occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. was making points with a local-option plan, were determined to rough up Almond in a rearguard action...
They listened tensely for the sound of gunfire behind them, which would mean that the pursuing Red Chinese had clashed with the rearguard of Khamba tribesmen. Up front, scouts probed carefully to make sure Communist paratroops had not been dropped in the pass to bar their way. All of them-the 35 Khambas of the rearguard, the 75 officials, soldiers and muleteers-were charged with a solemn responsibility: to make good the escape from Tibet of the God-King in their midst-the 23-year-old 14th Dalai Lama...
...Rearguard Tone. Ike's voice rang with conviction, and it was understandable that, faced with a peacetime-record deficit of $10 billion to $12 billion, he saw real peril for the U.S. in any trend toward freer spending. But his all-out stress on economy had a rearguard, negative tone that was unfair to his Administration's positive achievements...