Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, as the Japanese general rose to defend himself, spectators began to experience an uneasy perplexity. The chunky Japanese neither cringed nor swaggered. He bowed politely to the five U.S. generals sitting as judges. With ponderous dignity he instructed the Nisei interpreter: "Yamashita wants no mistakes. On long sentences I will repeat them twice. Listen carefully." Then he seated himself in the witness chair, denied that he had ever known of Philippine atrocities, much less condoned or ordered them...
William P. D. Bailey '49, Ray A. Goldberg '48, and Eleazer Krumbein '47 will defend the negative position for Harvard in an attempt to secure the second victory of the current season for the Council...
Stolidly, in the face of the President's confidence, he asked to be allowed to play safe, to withdraw the fleet from Pearl Harbor, base it on the Pacific Coast, and use it to defend the Western Hemisphere...
Truman said the U.S. needed the world's greatest military might in order to: 1) enforce the peace on Germany and Japan. 2) fulfill our obligations to UNO, 3) defend the Western Hemisphere, and 4) defend the U.S. By substituting "countries bordering the U.S.S.R." for "Western Hemisphere," the Russians could state their policy in the same terms...
...their whole trust in collective security, the Big Two were dangerous not because their foreign policies were so different, but because they were so much alike. And they were alike because each of the Big Two, atomic bomb or no, trusted more in its own ability to defend itself than in collective action...