Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tournament also includes a singles championship, which Jernigan won as a freshman last year. He will be back to defend his title, making him ineligible to compete in the team championships...
Harvard, host Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern University participated in another Beantown championship event last night. It wasn't the Beanpot, of course, but the Greater Boston Swimming Championships. Luckily, the aquamen fared much better than Coach Bill Cleary's men, holding off a strong B.U. charge to defend their title, in the last year of the Championship...
...want to resort to extremism, but if we are pushed against the wall, we will defend ourselves." -A young Moroccan in Paris...
...apparently for plotting to seize power, since last August. The Reagan Administration has tried to help Nimeiri, providing more than $200 million in economic and military aid in 1983. The Sudanese leader has been pressing the U.S. for more arms for his poorly equipped troops, claiming the need to defend against possible attacks by Libya and Ethiopia. The U.S. is reluctant to comply, however, suspecting that the requested weapons might actually be used against the southern insurgents. "Egypt also has failed to respond, possibly due to misgivings over Nimeiri's Islamization campaign. Helicopter gunships, in particular, would...
...invasion of Grenada. Referring to the 24 Cubans who died in the invasion, Castro declared to loud applause that "the blood shed by the heroic collaborators who fell in Grenada will never be forgotten." Nor, he said, would the Cuban revolution "tremble or vacillate" should the time come to defend itself. Harking back yet again to the Santiago triumph of 1959, Castro invoked the "heroism, patriotism and revolutionary spirit" of that day to achieve the same aim: "Victory...