Word: rearguard
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...battle, especially the exaggerated reports of U.S. casualties (see PRESS). He said: "Total American losses to the present time are less than 500, amounting to 42 killed, 190 wounded and 246 missing.-. . . American ground units in Korea are fighting one of the most skillful and heroic holding and rearguard actions in history. Their excellent peacetime training is reflected in the excellent combat record they are now compiling...
...will be too withered to put proper punch into even his most foul-mouthed efforts. This decadence has even seeped into the British army, Graves avers; but since Britons do their best with their backs to the wall, a few drill sergeants here and there are fighting a magnificent rearguard action. When "positive swearing" fails to impress their rookies, these dauntless bulldogs fall back on the finer, far-more-difficult art of "negative swearing," i.e., not swearing at all. This art is shown in its finest flower by the following little story, told by a desperate physical instructor...
Durable Species. The coalition was not a development of the civil-rights fight. It was an old alliance which began developing during Franklin Roosevelt's second term. It fought a rearguard action against the New Deal. It would not be a hard & fast combination; there would be regroupings within it and shifts back to the Administration side...
...Rescue. At Pittsburgh, the labor and liberal leaders who run the Americans for Democratic Action (Leon Henderson, Walter Reuther, Jim Carey, David Dubinsky, et al.) could not bring themselves to a flat endorsement of Candidate Truman, but they let him down with some sugary words ("We appreciate his brave rearguard action in defense of our social and labor legislation"). They settled on a statement which said, in effect: "Please, General Eisenhower, rescue...
...brought to a successful end within three months. The Mediterranean would be neutralized by then, and the Soviet would only have to cover its European flanks against assault from the British Isles before embarking on the third phase. One hundred divisions or so are considered enough for this rearguard, of which some 50 would be composed of Bulgars, Yugoslavs and Czechoslovaks...