Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot think of any better place for the defense enthusiasts who are clamoring to defend everything and everybody in the wide, wide world, excepting...
Lowering the draft age would solve none of these problems. Its effect would be to insure perpetuation of military training after the emergency is over, and we would have a French-style, one-year-trained army which couldn't defend even a Maginot or an Atlantic...
With the first race against M.I.T. three short days away, Love again saw his favorites lose, and it was not until the day before that he managed to pick a crew which could defend its right to race Tech. So with only two days of practice, one granted by fate when the race was postponed to Monday, the crew was not a perfect unit, and lost by two lengths...
Calling the theory that England will shortly be defeated by invasion "a black council of despair," Conant suggested that when invasion of Great Britain is imminent or actually under way, the United States would "finally in a last desperate effort to defend the cause of freedom join our forces with the British fleet...
...Unless the United States is prepared to shape its philosophy to that of the totalitarian states through a pact of mutual understanding, we shall eventually be forced to defend our freedom by acts...