Word: rearguard
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...Rearguard Disbanded. Underlying the big change was a new attitude of mature, professional self-confidence. It showed itself along the muddy fighter bases behind the lines in Korea, at bomber bases in North Africa, in Alaska, Greenland and Britain, at training bases in Arizona-and in the Pentagon itself. The attitude was best symbolized by a blue-clad West Pointer who wears the four stars of the Chief of Staff of the U.S Air Force-a broad-shouldered airman with grey curly hair parted down the middle, black eyebrows, a strong nose and a big jaw-named Nathan Farragut Twining...
Truce or no truce, Hollywood is still fighting a rearguard action in Korea...
...armored regiment of Moroccan Spahis, as part of General de Lattre's Army of the Rhine and Danube. One day while Navarre, the assiduous information gatherer, was reconnoitering alone along a forest road in a jeep, he found himself looking down the burp-gun barrels of the German rearguard-about 40 men. Navarre, who speaks excellent German, barked out: "Drop your guns. You are surrounded. You are my prisoners. March down that road and surrender to my Moroccans." The bluff worked and the Germans did as they were told-but De Lattre instructed Navarre not to go reconnoitering...
...Pacific Northwest, where public power has taken over 65% of the market in the past 20 years, private power seemed finished President Frank McLaughlin of Puget Sound Power & Light Co. Washington's biggest private utility, finally threw in the towel last year after fighting a long, rearguard action against the Public Utility Districts. "Fighting them," said he, "is like trying to live in a house while the workmen are tearing it down...
...proud to be the rearguard of such a gallant group of men," he said. But he did not dwell on the drama of the occasion, or say much about that vast host, once so young, so fierce, so frightened, so deadly, and now gone except for him. The drummer boy was so old that none of it really seemed important. He said happily that he had shoveled the walk six times during the winter, and still smoked eight cigars...