Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the way Chamberlain was dealing with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy prompted him to quit the Foreign Ministry, thus jeopardizing a promising political career. "The essence of our actions at home and abroad must be firmness and courage," he said at the time. "All must be ready to defend it." After replacing Chamberlain in 1940, Churchill returned Eden to his old post as Foreign Secretary. At the fateful conferences of Yalta and Potsdam, which set the frontiers of postwar Europe, Eden was always at Churchill's elbow -both as a colleague and as his heir apparent...
With our security assured, we became bemused by the popular belief that President Monroe's obligation to defend the Western Hemisphere, and indeed almost any obligation we might choose to assume, depended on unilateral American decisions...
...must maintain a secure and just peace. ¶ We must create a cooperative and beneficial international order. ¶ We must defend the rights and the dignity...
...violence from the very start of the civil rights movement. He emphasizes that it was not until a full year after Bogside that the IRA reappeared and began to recruit members in the Catholic ghettoes of Ulster and Belfast. "At first, the IRA claimed only that they wanted to defend the Catholic community. But it wasn't too long before the IRA was off on the attack with its bombing and shooting...
...reprehensible that Bok did not see fit to include students, or at least one student representative, on the search committee. The person whom the committee chooses will ostensibly be selected to defend the same interests as the task force itself, and its participation in the selection would ensure a working relationship with students. It is not as if they are tangentially related to the work the new affirmative action officer will perform--the officer will be directly responsible for their interests...