Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ineligible because he had not been a resident of Montreal for the required three years before election day (Houde was in internment camp for four years, until last August, for urging Quebeckers not to register for national selective service). Justice Louis Cousineau ordered the Mayor to defend himself in court...
Today Standish meets Company B, and Lowell has to defend its title against a dangerous Company C quintet. Tomorrow afternoon the Bellboys run up against Adams in what may be the decisive game of the year, and Companies A and B vie. The two NROTC squads face each other, and Company C will take on Company D Thursday...
...Belgium, in a sector where the Allies had stood for nearly three months. On Sunday a column of 15 to 20 Nazi Tiger tanks, spearheading the new German drive, cut off a U.S. First Army unit which had only light weapons to defend itself. The Americans were quickly overcome; 143 were herded into a field with a few others the Germans had captured earlier. The Germans took away the prisoners' watches and any other possessions they fancied...
...Leftists stalked each other with Tommy guns, were the ruins of the hopes born of liberation. Splashes of Greek and British blood slowly clotted on the pavements. Athens, where the word democracy (from demos, the people) first achieved political meaning, was a battleground for two forces, each claiming to defend democracy...
...mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...