Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phillies hadn't scored a run against the Dodgers all year for pitcher Steve Carlton. So when Mike Schmidt golfed a low Jerry Reuss slider over the center field fence in the first inning to give the Phillies a 1-0 lead, Carlton was prepared to defend...
Peiping's massive gates swung open and through them General Fu ("I will defend this city to the last!") marched 100,000 troops for "reorganization." At Peiping, Nationalists and Communists signed an agreement designed to "shorten the civil war, satisfy a public desire for peace and . . . prevent the vitality of the country from sinking any further." The agreement did not mention "surrender...
...bolted to a table at the New York Yacht Club, which has been its home for 132 years. Its tenure had become frighteningly fragile, however. For the past fortnight a superboat and a bunch of hungry sailors from Down Under have shown that the U.S. can no longer successfully defend the knobbly silver ewer merely by putting a boat in the water. At week's end the best-of-seven series was tied 3-3 between the red-hulled American defender Liberty and Australia II. In the process, the Aussies had proved themselves every fighting inch the equals...
...money and the guns, but we will supply the dead and injured," says a businessman in Comayagua. Most Hondurans, however, welcome the U.S. influx. Says an influential banker in Tegucigalpa: "There is nothing temporary about the American presence in Honduras. We need the U.S. Army. If we need defending from any outside threat, the U.S. will defend us. We want the American troops here...
...last week's vote may bring precisely the opposite result because the amendment is vaguely worded. It reads in part: "The state acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect . . . vindicate and defend that right." As FitzGerald put it, "The most vulnerable word, legally speaking, is 'unborn...