Word: bulwarking
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Strong evidence of the Democrats' restiveness is the fact that they willingly let Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a long time party bulwark, threaten a floor fight over the RS-70 long after the President and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara expressly announced their opposition to expanding the bomber program. Congressional Democrats may thus be serving notice on President Kennedy that they are not above jabbing his ribs if he does not pay them more dutiful attention...
...Zealand has promised to bulwark Western Samoa's copra, cocoa and banana economy for three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
Outgunned and outmanned. the remaining "mercenaries" were no match for the U.N. forces. Where once they were the bulwark of Tshombe's forces, they are now only a tattered remnant...
...Theory. Part of the Reds' difficulty lies in the historic background of Communism, which was invented by urban intellectuals and aimed at the industrial proletariat. In Das Kapital, Karl Marx scarcely mentioned the farm problem except to say that "large-scale industry in agriculture will destroy the bulwark of the social order, the peasant." Marx's successors have persisted in thinking that a farm is just a factory without walls, and that farmers are identical with workers on an assembly line...
...Laos because, should hostilities start again. Red China would enter the fray to ensure a Communist victory. For the West, it represents a Hobson's choice: surrender Laos by default, or be prepared to send in troops to hold at least the Mekong River line as a bulwark for what is left of free Southeast Asia...