Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have all types here-chiefly Airedales, shepherds, collies and Dobermans. When a dog becomes thoroughly obedient and responds correctly to every command and signal, he is schooled in defense of his master and in attack. If they don't defend us, they are ruled out, and it is here that most dogs fail...
...Joseph Stalin is fighting his own war, Russia's war, the war which he foresaw perhaps before anyone else and for which he prepared to defend his country...
Clark, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, was a founder of the Plattsburg training camps in the First World War, and was one of the leaders of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies before the United States enforced this war. After studying similar acts in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Clark urged that such a law was needed for "moral reasons," as well as for practical necessity...
...dark and narrow streets of Marseille last week men and women, pimps and tarts and petty thieves, dug out what weapons they could find and prepared to defend the ugly, dirty little houses which were their homes. The Germans were coming to the Quartier Reserve in the Old Harbor area, and they were not seeking pleasure. They came to throw 40,000 citizens of Marseille out of their homes, which they had ordered razed so that the waterside could be fortified against the Allied invasion they feared...
...first day Senator Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire took the stand to defend O'Donnell. Tobey, a 100% Isolationist before Pearl Harbor, stated his belief, unshaken by repeated official U.S. Navy denials, that U.S. warships actually were convoying British vessels long before the U.S. went actively to war. O'Donnell testified that seven Senators and Representative Sol Bloom had told him so. O'Donnell's attorney, former G.O.P. National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, questioned Publisher Stern...