Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only President Enrique Jimenez dared defend the treaty, insisting that most of its opponents "have not even taken the trouble of reading it." The students and their professors, egged on by the Communist-tinged People's Party, stayed away from their classes and planned new demonstrations. Said realistic Assembly President Harmodio Arosemena: "Nobody will vote for the bases when they can look out the window and see 10,000 boys sharpening their knives...
...done any wrong. Like Tennessee's other Senator, choleric old Kenneth McKellar, he knew where Mister Crump stood on most issues and acted accordingly. When anybody, anywhere, took Mister Crump's name in vain, Tom Stewart was likely to rise up on the Senate floor to defend "the South's greatest leader...
...Capitalism can prevent a third world war" is the resolution which the Debate Council will defend against the Worker's Socialist Party tonight at eight o'clock in the Old South Meeting House...
...though the new ideas had been violently avowed, and the hallmark of their advocates was a fanaticism unknown since the first flush of Islam, wherever the fanatics were brought to trial, almost without exception they failed to defend their beliefs...
Goldstein, prominent Boston lawyer and instructor in labor law at Boston University, is expected to defend the bill against the attacks of Collins, New England regional director...