Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have in my position a man who can wholeheartedly advocate and defend the program of broad general sub sidies. ... I cannot do this for the reason that I do not believe such subsidies will be effective in controlling inflation unless they are accompanied here, as they are in England, by current tax and savings programs that drain off excess buying power, and by tight control and management of the food supply...
...Economist analyzed Nazi plans. "The Germans clearly expect an onslaught from the southeast. For months now defense workers have been . . . fortifying the Greek coasts and some of the islands. ... In Bulgaria the mountain passes have recently been fortified. . . . [The Nazi] aim in the Balkans must be to defend Rumania for its oil and to prevent a break-through into the great plain of Central Europe. . . . The Germans can hope that the Allies, after exhausting themselves in expensive attacks on the outposts, would have to face a heavy counteroffensive from the air and heavily mechanized armies operating from well prepared...
...Church have no blessing for war, but shame upon us as churchmen if we have no blessing for our sons and no blessings for our governments who, in the presence of war, defend with their very lives our holy things...
...foot-racing fans, sizzling in the stands at New York's Triborough Stadium, had eyes for only two. One was chunky, pony-gaited Gregory Rice, taking time off from his duties as chief petty officer at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. to defend the championship he had won for five successive years. The other: gaunt, gazelle-gaited Gunder Hagg (pronounced Hegg), the touted Swedish fireman who was making his U.S. debut in the national 5,000-meter...
Said Major General James H. Doolittle: "In simple terms, if you destroy what a man has and remove the possibility of his bringing more in, then in due course of time it becomes impossible for him to defend himself...