Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France and her honor are at stake," said the Marshal. "We are attacked, we shall defend ourselves. This is the order I am giving...
WASHINGTON--The White House disclosed tonight that President Roosevelt had sent to Marshal Petain, French Chief of State, an explanation of the American invasion of French North Africa and that Petain replied with a pledge to "defend...
...Many a law-school man thinks that the nation can ill afford to abandon legal education even during the war. Cried the president of the Association of American Law Schools, Columbia Professor Elliott Cheatham: "Lawyers are as dangerous and ab horrent to tyrants now as they were when Erskine defended Tom Paine, or Male-sherbes risked and lost his life to defend Louis XVI from the revolutionary tribunal." In vain law schools have attempted to get army deferments for some of their students, on the grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary...
...will meet this afternoon when an undefeated and united CRIMSON squad gurgles back at the challenging members of the "Princetonian," crusading daily from New Jersey. An unsullied, pure, clean, perfect record is at stake for the knife-witted hooligans of Plympton Street, and a mighty machine is prepared to defend it. The score should...
...wish to defend the position of Catholics on the birth control amendment. Your editorial of yesterday concludes that "Fairness to the less financially privileged and freedom of conscience are the core of this people's referendum." We are being neither unfair to the poor, nor imposing on freedom of conscience...