Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time in 1935 and 1936 when I used to hear . . . 'ancestral voices prophesying war!' But now I am thankful to say I do not hear those voices ... I have a growing hope that by the strength of our united civilization, and by our readiness and preparedness to defend freedom with our lives, we may avert forever the horrible vision of a third world...
...Shanghai will be the Communists' graveyard," read posters slapped on store fronts throughout the city last week. "Sacrifice everything to defend Shanghai," exhorted others. But outside the besieged city the Nationalist defense perimeter shrank slowly. From the east, Communist armies moved to within shell range of the city without meeting any real opposition. One night, for the first time in China's civil war, a Communist shell whined into Shanghai's heart...
...occasion, Addington was asked by a legislator if he would defend the United States in a war with Russia. Addington replied that it would depend on who was the aggressor...
...time that Canwell was conducting the investigation at the University, public reaction against his methods began to form. Educators and even other legislators complained of the inability of the accused to defend themselves. J. Alfred Schweppe, former dean of the University law school and a past president of the Washington bar, complained that the Canwell Committee itself was "un-American." One of the professors accused of being a Communist, Herbert Phillips, was prevented from replying to the "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" question with anything but a yes or no answer...
...point of Baxter's article was not to express his own views on foreign policy. It was to defend the right of Frederick L. Schuman, a member of the Williams faculty, to expound differing opinions...