Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reaction was: Odlum has moved again! Its second: Has he turned away from his old hunting grounds (bankrupt utilities, movie companies, stores), moved into the aircraft business -the field in which Wife No. 2 is interested. Friends of the Curtiss-Wright management offered to raise a pool to defend the company against Odlum's raid. Guy Vaughan, president of Curtiss, cooled them off. He told them the smartest thing he had ever done was to get his friend Floyd Odlum on the Curtiss-Wright board...
...Finland trusted, however, in agreements concluded with her neighbor and in the desire for peace repeatedly proclaimed by this neighbor and did not believe war would break out. Nevertheless war did break out and the country was compelled to defend itself...
...Archbishops do when they receive the pallium, Archbishop Spellman publicly professed his Catholic faith. He also said: "I profess and glory in my American citizenship, and I pledge myself to maintain and defend our fundamental liberties...
Planning to defend its unofficial title as world champion, the Widener baseball team has challenged "any library within a radius of 150 miles", according to its first baseman and manager, Frederick G. Kilgour...
Promptly, fellow members of A. F. H. W. put the cooperative on its "unfair list," picketed it. Said they: "The union has to defend its wage scale, even against its own members." Said the Hancock officers: "If we do, we've got to go out of business." Fuming unhappily, Gus Geiges and other old union men were forced into the great labor sin of crossing the picket line. Union members, picketed by their fellows, continued to knit away inside Hancock. At week's end the situation was taken into bickering conference...