Word: rearguards
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...Sense of God. Mydans' mind is itself a kind of camera. He writes in pictures that illustrate life in swift, touching anecdotes and impressions: the wedding procession that moved along an Italian road on foot while up ahead, U.S. troops were in deadly battle with a German rearguard; or the terrible day when he was caught in a Japanese earthquake and watched in horror as rescuers sawed through the arm of a pinned victim. He recalls with fine comic effect two G.I.s in top hats putting on a mock duel in the Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat...
...occasion: the diehards of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's powerful political machine, aware that the state's massive resistance laws had collapsed, and that Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. was making points with a local-option plan, were determined to rough up Almond in a rearguard action...
They listened tensely for the sound of gunfire behind them, which would mean that the pursuing Red Chinese had clashed with the rearguard of Khamba tribesmen. Up front, scouts probed carefully to make sure Communist paratroops had not been dropped in the pass to bar their way. All of them-the 35 Khambas of the rearguard, the 75 officials, soldiers and muleteers-were charged with a solemn responsibility: to make good the escape from Tibet of the God-King in their midst-the 23-year-old 14th Dalai Lama...
...Rearguard Tone. Ike's voice rang with conviction, and it was understandable that, faced with a peacetime-record deficit of $10 billion to $12 billion, he saw real peril for the U.S. in any trend toward freer spending. But his all-out stress on economy had a rearguard, negative tone that was unfair to his Administration's positive achievements...
...reopened last week, and the curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping and bomb-throwing and shouting about "throwing the invaders into the sea." There was no other reason for U.S. troops to sneak away; brought in to stabilize a confused and desperate situation, provided with no clear directive on landing, and frequently under provocation from excitable rebels, they...