Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Easter Eggs? There will undoubtedly be hard fighting here. Jap discouragement has yet to reach the point of refusal to fight. But the strange little men lost their best chance of killing a lot of Americans when their general decided not to defend the west beaches. Perhaps the Jap commander was so certain that we would land on the east or south that he put all his eggs in eastern or southern baskets. His pillboxes on the western beaches were jerry-built of scrub-pine logs, lightly covered with sand and coral. Only a few bursts were fired from...
Perhaps the enemy had been puzzled as to where the landings would come, and unprepared where they did come. Perhaps he planned to give up the hard-to-defend southern part of the island and retreat into the mountainous north...
...days of the great Marshal Lyautey had Frenchmen been so conscious of empire. The consciousness arose from the persistent (and unduly alarming) rumors that France would be asked to put some of her strategic overseas bases under international "trusteeship." To the Consultative Assembly hurried Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to defend his country's colonial record, challenge its critics, and proclaim a new deal for an empire second only to Britain...
Resuming activity after a layoff of several weeks, the Harvard Debate Council will play host tomorrow evening to an invading team from the United States Military Academy at West Point. In a debate starting at 7:15 o'clock, the cadets will defend the negative position in the question: "Resolved, That there be compulsory federal arbitration of labor disputes, voluntary agreements having failed and constitutionality conceded...
...only other game that was played saw Company A overcome their V-12 buddies of Company C by the score of 53 to 29. Today no teams will take the court, since Standish and Company B have already played their scheduled contest; but on Wednesday, Lowell will have to defend its supremacy against once defeated Standish, and the Adams quintet will engage NROTC Company...