Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan, and it travels a long way through several easily-attacked points, Considering the volatility of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the growing strength of the Soviet navy in these areas, and Japan's value to us both as an ally and a friend, could the U.S. defend these far-flung supply routes in the event of crisis and still honor its responsibilities elsewhere? It is this concept of "stretched-thinness" that worries U.S. policy makers. And the Japanese should be worried...
...Plate," received from Stone a mangled hubcap. "I don't think there's any other country we'd rather see have the Cup," said Stone, adding that he had already been contacted by a backer willing to take up the challenge whenever the Australians defend...
...four-nation effort that pumped some $3 billion into foreign-exchange markets to buy marks, francs and other currencies in an attempt to stem the dollar's rise. Washington contributed $254 million to that intervention, which was tiny in comparison with the $30 billion Washington marshaled to defend the staggering dollar in 1978. But the intervention, the largest of its kind since then, had little sustained effect, and the dollar is now at approximately the same level it was in early August...
...Russians are a threat to this country and to democratic interests world-wide and it doesn't take a hateful mind to realize that Russian actions since 1945 are not just a product of U.S. provoked paranoia. If liberals in this country would quit taking it upon themselves to defend the argument that the U.S. is the aggressor in the world arena, then the U.S. could begin to discuss the much more important issue of what posture it will take towards the Russians...
...Spirit of 76 in one last errand arced across central Missouri carrying Richard Nixon to his retirement, Gerald Rudolph Ford stood in the East Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific, the 38th President had taken command...