Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Policy. "We have heard over and over again . . . that there is no peace . . . that our foreign policy has failed and our prestige is at an alltime low. All I can say about that is: it may not be surprising that those who defend an Administration which never recognized there was a war in Korea may not know the difference between war and peace...
...Often it was not easy. One dark season more than 20 people were killed in picket-line skirmishes at the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In Manhattan angry crowds howled for J.D.R. Jr.'s blood: "Shoot him down like a dog!" J.D.R. Jr., first reacting instinctively to defend his Colorado managers, later went out to Colorado with a bright young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became his lifelong friend and longtime Prime Minister of Canada), found out about company towns, came away criticizing paternalism as "antagonistic to democracy." Thereafter J.D.R. Jr. consistently sympathized...
...situation has become so bad that one Christian Democratic Deputy has proposed "measures to defend our soldiers against attack by the population." Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung editorialized wryly: "The Bundeswehr is being established for the protection of the state. Is the state now supposed to protect its soldiers against citizens...
...tainted decisions that gave him the world's welterweight championship. Johnny Saxton tried his hand at honest fistfighting. For a few rounds at the Syracuse War Memorial Auditorium, he moved in and traded punches with Challenger Carmen Basilio. By the time he backed off and tried to defend himself, he was so beaten up he had nothing left. In the ninth round Basilio pounded him senseless. While Saxton was being lugged to his corner, the onetime Canastota (N.Y.) onion farmer knelt in mid-ring to give a prayer of thanks for the title...
...Champ. In Cucamonga, Calif., after neighbors complained that the peace was being disturbed, a constable found 77-year-old Mrs. Sarah E. Shaffstall practicing to defend her Los Angeles County Fair hog-calling championship...