Word: rearguard
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...Rearguard Justice. Unhappily, some of those promising district judges have turned out to be so devoted to segregation that they may be the greatest obstacle to equal rights in the South today...
...native airborne battalion in 1950. With the French engaged in their war against the Communist Viet Minh, Khanh led his paratroopers in a jump onto the Hoabinh battlefield of North Viet Nam, scene of a French defeat that was only slightly less disastrous than Dienbienphu, carried out a valiant rearguard action covering the French retreat. Khanh finished the war, in which he was wounded (he still likes to pull up his shirt to show his scars), as a lieutenant colonel in charge of a regimental combat team...
...drenched Capitol lawn crowd at Jackson. "We are Americans as well as Mississippians." While he is Governor, Johnson vowed, "hate, prejudice or ignorance will not lead Mississippi." He would oppose what he felt was morally and constitutionally wrong. "But if I must fight, it will not be a rearguard defense of yesterday. It will be an all-out assault for our share of tomorrow...
...Navy in World War II does not seem to impress him.) Parkinson does not believe that Eastern parity with the West "is even imminent," but believes that it will eventually come and that it will be up to Russia to fight the West's last rearguard action, as Byzantium once shored up the exhausted Roman Empire...
Lutherans are generally less engaged, and in the rearguard of the civil rights battle comes the big Southern Baptist Convention, many of whose 10.2 million members believe that segregation derives from...