Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only two fights left in him, said Joe. He would defend his crown, for the 24th time, in September. Probable victim: second-rater Joe Baksi (see PRESS). Then, in another year, he would give someone else a final chance at him, and then retire-as undefeated champion, he hoped...
...them make such a mistake. . . . We need to make it perfectly clear that we are committed to defend certain vital areas, that we will fight if they are invaded, and that we have the strength to fight successfully. If we draw that sort of line, we can be quite certain that the Red Army will not cross...
...moment of misguided calculation, Laird marries Hugh's cousin Sabrina and tries to forget his passion for the golden-skinned Denise. This turns out to be un necessary for Sabrina conveniently goes crazy. But Hugh, too, has noted the tiger ish Denise, and Laird has to defend him self against various attempts at assassina tion, including one by a whole troop of Klansmen. Meanwhile he rebuilds the old Fournois estate and goes to the legislature on the vote of his Negro constituents. But he finds Reconstruction politics too hopelessly corrupt to play. In the end he loses all-except...
...Robert M. Beren '47, and Roy G. Clouse '50, who will uphold the affirmative, face a Yale trio in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock, while Hugh M. Hill '48, Edwin J. Jacob '47, and Howard L. Swartzman '47 will travel down to New Jersey to defend the negative...
When the Japanese moved into North Borneo in January 1942, the British colony in Sandakan got its orders: "Meet the enemy, resist passively, do not cooperate. We cannot defend you. Goodbye!" Among the 80 men, women & children was Agnes Newton Keith, U.S. author whose Atlantic Monthly $5,000 prizewinning Land Below the Wind had made Borneo seem like a grim, if fascinating, place for so genteel a lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came...