Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough decision to make: whether to dip into its central strategic reserve (believed to be from 40 to 50 divisions) to try to salvage the situation in Rumania. Swedish military sources estimated that the German southern wing must have at least 20 fresh divisions if it is to defend the vital Ploesti oilfields, source of one-third of the Reich's oil. The estimate may or may not be accurate, but that defense the Germans must undertake...
...Carpathian wall is to halt the Russians, it will likewise divide the south ern German front into two distinct sectors, just as the Pripet Marshes divide it farther north. In this case the Germans will have two new fronts to defend...
...Civil Liberties Union will defend Isenstadt and DeVoto, who will be arraigned next Saturday for selling and purchasing literature containing obscene language. Working with the Civil Liberties Union have been the Harvard Liberal Union, who canvassed Cambridge bookstores for a test case, and the American Youth for Democracy, which presented a pettion to the Coop requesting that the Coop make the test...
...Deputies' President had resolved upon his duty: to defend, until the last possible moment, "the rights of Parliament, which are the rights of the people. . . . This is a role I shall never step...
Spreading Cancer. Quick to defend the picture was the National Conference of Christians & Jews which includes Roman Catholics and which had previously approved M.O.T.'s projected film. Said the Conference's Dr. Willard Johnson: "We believe that Americans of all creeds are in sympathy with this objective . . . the forthcoming picture . . . which deals with the pernicious effects of all forms of bigotry, will be an invaluable help in directing public attention to what His Excellency, Archbishop Spellman, accurately describes as a spreading cancer...