Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history until after they had learned to paint and write and build. ... I find few things more depressing than the correct appraisements [of works of art] by juvenile critics accompanied usually with condescensions toward Sargent and Saint-Gaudens. Little as I admire Sargent I am ready to defend him . . . against all comers under twelve years...
...planners expected the Japanese to defend the home islands by tactics similar to those used at Okinawa: no defense on the beach, retreat to strong positions, last-ditch defenses. The Japanese, however, still tried desperately to find a means to stop massed amphibious assaults at the water's edge. When the Marines were fighting on Iwo Jima, the high command pressed for development of an anti-landing craft weapon suitable for cheap, quick mass production. The fukuryus were the result...
...being certified insane. The board of Washington psychiatrists who certified him thus revived many laymen's suspicions about poets in general. Psychiatrists described Poet Pound, awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), as "abnormally grandiose, expansive and exuberant in manner," judged him "mentally unfit" to defend himself, had him packed off to a local asylum...
...called on the Brazilian Army to repel such aggression. Soon Brazil entered the war on the side of the Allies and Dutra, who later visited the U.S., decided he liked democratic U.S. ways. Said he: "Brazil and the U.S. have chosen a common lot of sacrifice and heroism, to defend democracy and fight oppression and perfidy...
Plan Otto. The record read: in 1937 the Nazis began specific preparations for a two-front war. They told the people they were merely preparing to defend Germany. Yet the evidence showed that Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, as War Minister, had given this official appraisal...