Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rearguard Operation. After Husák visited Moscow in October, he and his Soviet hosts issued a joint statement that spoke of "carrying on to the end the struggle against right-wing opportunism." Husák has been faithful to his word: some Czechs are wondering whether he will go so far as to stage political show trials...
...liberals in Communist women's organizations are being dismissed from office. Many leading journalists and broadcasters lost their jobs in the early days of the Soviet-led invasion; now the hunt is under way for the less well-known newsmen and intellectuals, who have conducted a bothersome rearguard operation against political repression...
...though a carefully phased redeployment should certainly be tried, I doubt that American opinion will any longer sit still for it. The announcement of the first troop withdrawals made clear that from now on America will regard the war as, at most, a rearguard action...
Even more of a threat is posed by the rapid advances of synthetics, which last year outsold cotton 2 to 1. The cotton industry is fighting back, but its $13 million research and advertising campaign amounts at best to a rearguard action. Research is concentrated on quick development of permanent-press fabrics made entirely of cotton. Ordinarily, such fabrics must be strengthened with synthetics, since the chemicals used to impart a permanent press weaken cotton fibers. The first limited success was an all-cotton durable-press shirt marketed this year...
...industrialization. Three attitudes toward change were fairly clearly defined: 1) conservative, 2) progressive or, as it was called, "liberal," and 3) revolutionary. Then, as now, thoroughgoing reactionaries were hard to find; nobody seriously tried to restore the pre-industrial Europe. But there were many clingers, people who fought rearguard actions, defending for reasons of interest or sentiment one or another bastion of the pre-industrial past. Against them, the liberals, mainly middle-class and including many intellectuals, carried the fight for science, industrialization, education and the nation-state, promising (recklessly) a tomorrow of peace and enlightenment...