Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contrary to popular legend, there is no reason to believe that the Japanese troops who will defend the Philippines, Formosa, China or even Japan proper will be better fighting men than those encountered on thei Pacific islands : the latter have been largely Imperial marines, rated as good as the best of the Jap Army...
...Valence, meanwhile, Resistance leaders from eleven departments, calling themselves the "Congress of Disillusioned Maquis Fighters," met and voted a resolution: "Let the Government remember that ... we represent the people and we will defend the interests of the people with ferocious tenacity!" Another meeting, scheduled for the "Popes' Palace" at Avignon this week, entitled itself the Etats Généraux-the name of the body whose meeting began the French Revolution. Was it a tocsin...
...love our country above everything else in the world? Then we are Nazis. Are we ready to defend the sovereignty of our republic at all costs? Then we are Nazis. Does Cordell Hull make us laugh? Then we are Nazis...
...paused in the attack just long enough to defend his Administration's preparations for war. His defense: the isolationist record of the Republicans in Congress who opposed Lend-Lease and other preparedness measures. He ridiculed Republicans who have changed their views, and said, while labor leaders applauded: "I am too old for that. I cannot talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time...
...might Italians, hungry, wartorn, defeated, alarmed by Tito's claims and without even Orlando to plead their cause, ponder upon the aging symbol in the Palazzo di Monte Citorio. "Now," said one Italian bitterly, "we have only Sir Noel Charles [British member of the Allied Advisory Council] to defend...