Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incredible first of all because of the weather. Incredible because, Meigs, back to defend, deflected the ball. Most incredible because Vern Loucks, just behind Meigs, grabbed the deflected ball nevertheless for six points. Vern Loucks also converted on the score, which came at 3:40, to give the Elis a 7-0 lead...
...Crimson rugby team will be unable to defend its intercollegiate championship in Bermuda next year, because the University's spring vacation will start on April 1, a week later than other Ivy League colleges. An invitation to the 1956 Rugby Week, scheduled for March 24-April 1, was received yesterday by Art Ticknor, Crimson rugby president...
...Springtime to witness a response to a call to duty. Margaret of England will be beloved by her people not because she gave up the man of her choice, but because she sacrificed personal happiness to maintain a way of life which her family is duty-bound to defend. In this era in which marriage is being reduced to a matter of registration and the word romance is becoming, in common parlance, equivalent to harlotry, the clean courtship, the honorable decision, the unwillingness to yield principle to personal satisfaction stand out in pristine beauty, and all who were engaged...
...These weapons are to defend Egypt. They are not to attack Israel. I cannot say how many weapons we need or will take. In war you cannot draw a hard line between defense and offense. As a military man, all I can tell you about that is that it depends on what the other fellow...
...often good politics to make a show of courting unpopularity: members are inclined to suspect any attempt to be popular as evidence of bad taste. Last week Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler remembered good politics as he rose, white-faced and grim, to defend himself against a Labor censure motion condemning him for "incompetence and neglect." The week before, Butler had been scourged by Labor's ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor himself, who demanded that Butler resign (TIME, Nov. 7). Now Butler set out to defend his emergency tax-raising budget to combat British...