Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving a San Francisco hotel, the Ambassador was confronted by an elderly woman, dressed in black, carrying a large placard that read: "We remember 1776 and we will defend our Republic." Lord Halifax asked her pleasantly, "You are against aiding England...
Said the picket: "I have nine sons. Seven of them are eligible for the draft, and some of them have been taken. I will give every one of my sons gladly to defend this country but I will not give one of them to fight a war for another nation...
...were on the threshold of Kiev as the week began and had not gone in as it ended, complained of bad weather, of fortifications "as strong as the Maginot Line," of forts three stories deep. But as British Military Expert Strategicus wrote last week: "It is not positions which defend the troops but the troops who defend the positions." On the Ukraine front the Germans finally forced their way across the Dniester River, the boundary line until the Russians took Bessarabia in June...
Peter Portal is a worrier and a hurrier. He knows he has a tremendous job to do and not much time. His job-as he sees it -is not only to defend Britain but to crush Germany. One of his first acts when he became Chief of Staff was to issue a strong recommendation that all Air Ministry officers work six ten-hour days a week...
...bluejackets and leathernecks pouring ashore at Reykjavik last week looked over the possibilities of Iceland-as a place to live and a place to defend...