Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope's visit to Poland is a lesson to all, but especially to the politicians who try to delude their constituencies into believing that the greatest bulwark against tyranny is an arsenal of nuclear warheads. John Paul has no armies at his command. His strength is truth. John Paul has not a single armament at his disposal. Courage is his only defense. The military power of a Caesar, a Hitler or a Stalin is short-lived compared with the moral power of leaders like Jesus, Gandhi and John Paul...
Above all, the Christian Democrats erred in renouncing their time-honored role as the bulwark against a Communist advance. During the campaign, De Mita declared that the party no longer had any ideological objection to the Communists as a democratic alternative. Berlinguer, he noted, had broken with Moscow over Poland and accepted Italy's membership in NATO. The Communists, moreover, were widely perceived to be entering a period of gradual decline. With a minimized menace on the left, anti-Communist voters who had once turned to the Christian Democrats felt free to scatter their votes to other parties...
...Europe (a balance that is now being upset by the SS-20's) has kept the peace these past 38 years. NATO has been able to keep up a credible enough threat to make the Soviets think twice before rolling into Western Europe. A NATO without its main bulwark, West Germany, as envisioned by the Greens, would leave Europe undefended and subject to Soviet invasion or (as seems more likely) Soviet domination...
...President's call for an overall freeze on total domestic spending (mostly by cutting some programs and postponing pay increases for federal workers and cost of living adjustments in entitlement programs) seemed to most Congressmen a feeble bulwark against the sea of red ink. Senate Republicans had suggested a freeze on all federal spending as a "bold" way to control the budget, but when Reagan exempted defense and other programs the plan lost both its simplicity and its moral force. "In order to get a freeze, we have to be fair about it," said G.O.P. Congressman Denny Smith...
Supporting the front line is arguably the best bullpen in the business, led by the team's bulwark. Bruce Sutter (9-8, 35 saves, 3 04). Sutter had an abysmal month-long drought in which he was awful, with an ERA over seven Since then, just the sight of him warming up has been enough toquell nascent rallies and give opposing managers nightmares. With a week and a half remaining, Sutter has an outside shot at surpassing John Hiller's mark of 38 saves...