Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will use its military juggernaut to keep peace and defend itself. (Said Navy Secretary Forrestal: the U.S. will hold its Navy so that others will know that "we have not gone back...
...contradiction, plain at San Francisco, became even more inescapable with every month that passed. People everywhere sincerely sought two objectives that were hard to reconcile. They wanted a world organization strong enough to keep peace; they also wanted their own nations to be really sovereign, i.e., strong enough to defend themselves against any "aggressor," including the world organization...
...baiter Julius Streicher: "Is this list [of approved attorneys] for somebody who is antiSemitic? I could not ask a Jew to defend...
Parable in Poznan. Important as they were to Russia and to Europe, the Balkan treaties in themselves were not enough to drive the Big Powers so far toward fission. One evident reality was that Molotov did not want to defend Russia's oppressive Balkan regimes before too big an audience; his objecting to French and Chinese participation was his way of avoiding that unpleasant task...
...dozen British officers, all experienced lawyers, did their best to defend the accused. Their argument: conditions at the camps had been caused by circumstances beyond the guards' control. As the trial wore on, death and torture began to sound commonplace, the vocabulary of horror grew too trite for the inferno that was on trial. Said one witness: "It might have been something Dante could have described. I could...