Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daylight blow, four planes were lost to enemy action; all the planes in the night raid returned to their bases. The Twentieth had paid heavily in men and material to ascertain what the Imperial Air Force could do to defend its homeland. But if this was the Jap's best, it was not good enough...
South of the Bonins 900 miles, the battle for Guam was near its end. The unpredictable Japs had elected not to defend the southern half of the island after Orote Peninsula fell. Last week U.S. ships swarmed into Port Apra, found the harbor in excellent shape for moving in supplies...
...Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free...
...idea of giving biographees a chance to defend themselves publicly came to Look's Editor Harlan Logan when he bought a manuscript from Reporter-Author Leland Stowe titled Roy Howard, Newspaper Napoleon. Logan sent it to Scripps-Howard's Howard for checking, got it back with marginal notes that disagreed with Stowe on several points. One Howard comment: "Napoleon, huh? Nap was a little runt and I'm nearly 5 feet 7 inches! He had a cowlick and I still have a pompadour...
...Bleak Province. Probably the most conservative general would have agreed with Hitler that Germany must defend East Prussia, the bleak province which is supposed to breed the "iron bowels" of the Junkers. On the sector covering East Prussia, from Kaunas to Grodno, the Russians paused for a whole week. The natural defenses before them-swamps, lakes and dense forests-were forbidding. The man-made defenses, particularly the strategic network of railways built long ago, were equally formidable. In this treacherous country, the Tsarist armies of World War I suffered their first great defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg...