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In the puns we have been looking at, the writer may revive and extend a metaphor (portraying the teachers as a small embattled force, but making them blue with cold, as well) while at the same time changing the form of the expression.
If true, this is an ironic name for a city that would become one of the most constantly and bitterly embattled places on the face of the earth.
Some shrewd inner compass and an unholy supply of curiosity saved him from becoming a relic of the past or an embattled opponent of the present.
Instead, in the case of Jews the depth of the mother country runs at about 4 (embattled) million.
In earlier times, he would have been one of Enlightenment's missionaries; in our own, he has come to be seen more as a guardian, a defender of embattled humanism.