Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than an armed U.S. The Russians have not got the atomic bomb. The Russian economic machine has made no recent important strides on the very long way it would have to go to approach equality with the U.S. Nevertheless, Russia s defensive capacity is impressive. If attacked, Russia would defend itself stubbornly...
Despite the city environment, however, an attempt is made to preserve a little of the rah-rah spirit that is usually found only in a small-town college. The chief item in this effort is the Freshman--Sophomore rush, a traditional event in which the Sophomores defend a greased pole which the Freshmen are supposed to fight through to and climb in order to capture a dummy at the top of the pole. Freshman victories are unusual...
...After he beat Jersey Joe Walcott in a slow-moving travesty last June, the aging (34) champ announced-to the relief of his fans and his mother-that he had fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...
...rightly claim that it has done much to lift Argentina from its old colonial economic status. Foreigners no longer own the railroads or the telephones. Foreign "exploiters" operate only under great handicaps. It is in terms of this sort of economic emancipation that the Peronistas defend IAPI and its works...
...Habsburg anachronism was replaced by the Wilsonian unrealities. The two most important of the new splinter states-Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia-operated on the Habsburg principle of a dominant nationality reigning over subordinate nationalities. Neither they nor their little neighbors could defend themselves. Progress and good intentions had created a power vacuum into which rushed first the Nazis, then the Reds...