Word: defend
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World War II is a vastly different business for Australia than its predecessor. It not only means sending troops halfway round the world to defend the Empire. It also means standing solid guard at home. There are now no reassuringly big Royal Navy battleships in Southern Pacific waters, and Japan, once an ally, is now a member of the Axis. Thus last week Australia was engaged in her greatest war effort, involving what many of her citizens called an "industrial revolution...
...With thousands of miles of coast to defend, Australia banks on her fast-multiplying Air Force more than on her Army & Navy combined. In the three years ending July 1942, she will have spent ?50,000,000* for air training, ?30,000,000 for expansion. In 1932 the R. A. A. F. had only 32 first-line planes. Last June it had 212, is today getting many more...
Yale, which is favored to defend successfully its Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championship, will open its current campaign against the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on Saturday. In the other League meeting this week, Dartmouth which scored a stunning 59-16 victory over Pennsylvania last Saturday, will entertain Columbia at Hanover this Saturday...
...bottom, no doubt it is an emotional reaction; and perhaps both sides tend to clothe their instinctive attitude in pseudo-logic. The one side, I am certain, exaggerates the ability of the United States to defend itself alone in a totalitarian world; it indulges in fantastic hopes of a negotiated peace; it hides it in contemplation of the crimes of the British, or the failings of democracy, both of which are completely irrelevant to the fact that the British, however criminal, are in fact fighting for the reconstruction of the kind or world we have known and that democracy, however...
...asserted that Bulgaria, wedged in between large German and Turkish troop concentrations, was determined to defend its interests and freedom by force of arms if necessary, although the primary objective of Bulgarian policy still is to keep...