Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abrupt end loomed menacingly over the horizon. If the Russians pushed into Finland-to root out the bases from which Nazi planes and U-boats were sinking ships bringing aid to Russia-or if the Allies landed in northern Norway, Germany might be able to defend her northern outposts only if Sweden allowed the shipment of reinforcements and supplies across Swedish territory. If Stockholm agreed, it would be a flagrant violation of her neutrality. If she refused, she could expect a German attack...
General Malinovsky took no stock in reports outside Russia that the Germans had invited disaster by withdrawing as many as 40 divisions to defend the Mediterranean. On the contrary, he said, new German tank and infantry divisions had recently appeared in Russia. From others Correspondent Kerr learned that, although the Germans had 26 armored divisions in Russia last November, 14 had been destroyed, encircled or so badly cut up that they were no longer effective. The rest were no match for the Red Army's strengthened and reorganized tank forces, nor for its artillery and infantry...
...telescopes the transformation of China's millions into an army. While cities are levelled and as many as a thousand Chinese are killed in a single hour, millions crawl westward along the roads. In the interior mountains they build underground factories, train troops, organize men, women & children to defend their nation. When at length Japan attacks the U.S., U.S. officers go to China to learn from experts how to fight Japs. In China they find "the very pattern of a modern fighting state...
...embarrassment of the administration, in trying to defend its system of labor legislation in the face of such a serious threat to war production, is painfully obvious. But John L. Lewis still refuses to act. He continues to consider this just another of his many bitter fights with the President...
Every reviewer has his pet theories which he will defend against all comers to the bitter and unreasonable end, especially if they are lost causes. Haggin, for instance, in his zeal for the cause of Toscanini, wrote recently in the "Nation" that he found Koussevitsky's Beethoven and Brahms "impossible to listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack...