Word: vanguardism
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...London bartender pondered a picture of his King clad in shorts and soaking up the equatorial sun on the deck of H.M.S. Vanguard. "The papers say he's keeping in close touch with the situation," said he. "Well, 4,000 miles would be close enough for me, too." But many another Briton, shivering in the grip of the coal crisis, took a kinder view as the papers reported, inch by inch, the royal progress to South Africa...
...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
Chinese medical facilities are fantastically primitive. Some hospital patients are required to bring their own beds, bedding, food and cooks. In rural areas, the best available medical treatment is furnished by traveling outdoor clinics, which announce their coming, as princes and officials used to do, with a vanguard of nurses, waving banners and ringing bells...
...Social Relations Department, must wonder about that. In his morning mail, for instance, he finds, written under a melodramatic letterhead, a persuasive description of Zimmerman as Socialist corruptor of youth and of American institutions. His next letter is from a Catholic priest who hails him as a vanguard figure in the struggle to preserve the American family. the same mail yields a series of long legal forms which notify him that an Arlington, Va., office-seeker thinks him a wanton defamer of decent people's character, and has filed suit to that effect with the Supreme Court. And not infrequently...
...vanguard, on trucks and makeshift ambulances, came the wounded who fell in overthrowing the Bolivian tyranny (TIME, July 29). Then followed rifle-toting men & women, exultant students, ordinary citizens. Fifty thousand strong, they paraded last week through La Paz's treeless Plaza Murillo to celebrate the first month of the revolution...