Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi, anti-U.S. slant to much that President Arias says and does. In the official version of his inaugural address was the statement that he believed the U. S. knew how to cooperate with Panama on a basis of good will, but that Panama, although too small to defend herself, could always make concessions to foreign countries who would defend her against demonstrations of ill will. Dr. Arias thought twice and skipped this sentence when he delivered the address...
...tragic complications of the year of grace 1940. A no-account strip of precipitous jungle on the Mekong River had become a matter of world politics involving not only Thailand and France, but the Axis and Britain-and even the U. S., which may some day have to defend the Philippines...
...once & for all. Their chance of doing so with some 40,000 men, of whom by last week they had lost relatively few, was enormously enhanced by the crushing power of their fleet's big guns, so easy to move from place to place, so easy (apparently) to defend against Italian planes...
General Hershey heard National C. I. O. Secretary James Barron Carey and General Counsel Lee Pressman defend labor's right to strike in defense industries, heard them oppose any move to abridge the right to strike, for whatever reason. He heard other speakers cry for more representation of labor on draft boards. But diplomatic Lewis Hershey confined him self to a cogent generality that was buzzing that day, as it had for weeks past, in many a citizen's mind. The U. S. must have unity in national defense, said he significantly, "Lest we each hang separately." Evidence...
...Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...