Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confederation. . . . Happily, the delegates chose to be guided by Washington's advice: 'It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hands...
...Cover) Next Monday night 27-year-old Joe Louis is to defend his Heavyweight Championship-for the 19th and maybe the last time...
...gave him two years before. He didn't, because he felt he owed something to Roxborough, Black, Blackburn and Jacobs, the men who made him. But after the. Nova fight, with a uniform on his big, supple back, Joe may let the title go and be satisfied to defend his country...
Nine people out of ten would probably scoff at the thought of being asked to work all summer long and yet pay for their expenses. Nevertheless, that is what a number of students did during their vacation, and they would be willing to defend their sanity at the drop...
...said that we are helping the British Empire defend the ideal of a free society which is built on a profound faith in the significance of the individual, the basis of our University tradition. "It is, therefore, for a two-fold reason a primary duty of a university to cherish this faith and strengthen it by words and deeds...