Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular majorities or of government officials and to express one's disagreement in emphatic terms--provided one does not advocate disobedience to law--is the heritage of every American citizen. It is an essential element of that democratic faith which we are now bending all our energies to defend. Freedom of speech and of opinion within university communities is peculiarly necessary to the survival of our national liberties and of our civilization. It is the special function of universities to provide a place in which men may seek to discover truth by the method of free inquiry--of fearless investigation...
...each time machine-gun fire drove them back. The commander of the supporting British squadron threatened attack unless the town gave in. Governor General Pierre Boisson, who lost a leg fighting the Germans in 1917, signaled in reply: "France has confided Dakar to me, and I shall defend it to the end." British guns spoke. Their conversation touched the Governor General's house, the town radio station (so that for several hours Vichy heard nothing), the French and native cities, Wakam airport, the railroad line to St. Louis, the city's main boulevard. Three pro-Vichy submarines...
...Defense League were anxious to avoid being branded at the start as a war group. This may remain their intention, but the League as a whole lost a good chance when it shouted down a resolution in favor of keeping American forces in this hemisphere." (From an editorial called "Defend and Preserve...
Before Franklin Roosevelt makes a bold stroke, he likes to know how it will hit the U. S. Last week various unofficial feelers poked the U. S. in the ribs. Playing on its one theme, William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies crusaded up & down the land. In Chicago it held a mass meeting of 14,000 people, to whom Admiral William H. Standley (U. S. N. retired) declared: "We should throw more and more ships, air planes, munitions . . . into democracy's fight against Hitlerism." The White Com mittee, which pounded home...
...wants to defend America; he, too, definitely thinks there are things worth fighting for; but "neither the British Empire not American industry's foreign markets," but only the actual defense of the United States, is among these things...