Word: rearguard
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...conclusion he reiterated. "No defensive rearguard action confronts teachers and supporters of the liberal arts as a result of war; the challenge is to use the present interval in preparation for a renewed advance...
...opportunity to progress toward a more complete realization of this aim that lies before the American educational word. No defensive rearguard action confronts teachers and supporters of the liberal arts as a result of war; the challenge is to use the present interval in preparation for a renewed advance...
Throughout these eight days Axis rearguard troops backed up, fighting desperately while the remnants of Erwin Rommel's once-great African army streamed on ahead. German artillery blazed away, rocked back, blazed away again from the mountains that surround Italy's loveliest African seaport. Futilely the Luftwaffe rose to ward off the blows of a superior enemy. At last they gave up. Tripoli fell in flames and smoke, much of its harbor facilities, many of its military installations demolished by the fleeing Nazis. They continued to flee as light British warships crowded in and shelled them from...
...restoration of a lasting peace must be approached in a different way. The facts that bring me to this conclusion are: 1. the failure of Hitler to invade England over 22 miles of water, 2. the failure of the large and idle British army to make an effective rearguard action with an army of 10,000,000 as its ally, 3. the failure of the one totalitarian force in the world with its own forts and inside lines to prevent huge German victories...
...very first day, Napoleon fell off his horse-a bad omen. The horses got colic from eating green crops, and in ten days one third of the cavalry was lost. By the time they reached Vilna, 50.000 men were lost from sickness alone. The Russians fought sharp rearguard actions almost to Moscow, stood at Borodino, killed 25,000 Frenchmen. Having entered most of the first cities of Europe except Moscow, the soldiers were eager to sweep into Moscow. But the Russians burned the town as they entered...