Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Communist press buzzed with talk of civil war, all parties except the Communists united in an unequivocal promise to defend Greece against foreign invasion...
...Congress they have two bourgeois jarties-Democrats and Republicans. But both parties have words to defend the interests of the capitalists who are the real bosses of the country...
Sportswriters had been calling Sugar Ray the uncrowned world welterweight champ for so long that the phrase came out of their typewriters automatically. But through the war years, an amiable, not too able fighter named Red Cochrane had the title frozen. When it came time to defend it last February, Red passed up Sugar Ray, who was first in line, fought one Marty Servo, who had put up $50,000 for the chance. Marty took the title by a knockout. Last week Sugar Ray was 1-to-5 betting favorite to whip Marty Servo...
...dominated wartime competition so completely that he came to be called "Mr. Golf" was sick & tired of the game. Last week Byron Nelson, nervous, greying and ailing at 34, turned up in Portland, Ore. to defend his national pro championship. Before the tournament got under way he announced that it was his farewell to year-round golfing...
Among this new generation of Jewish patriots (and hardened soldiers newly arrived from Poland) are the most eager recruits for the Jewish underground organizations. Haganah (numbering an estimated 70,000) was organized to defend settlers from the Arabs, now helps illegal Jewish immigration. Two offshoots, the Irgun Zvai Leumi (3,000) and the Stern Gang (2,300), are the terrorist groups who believe that the only way to achieve the Jewish state is to drive the British out of Palestine...