Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several days' respite, returned to battle with heavy daylight attacks on synthetic oil plants at Gelsenkirchen and Wesseling, other industrial targets in the famed university city of Bonn. The raid was expensive: Twenty-five bombers were lost, mostly over Gelsenkirchen. Apparently the Germans were no longer able to defend more than one city at a time. To the Heart. R.A.F. bombers struck in force at Nuremberg, shrine of the Nazi party. Two large diesel-engine factories, two trunk railway junctions and other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning...
People who believe that Vatican politics are good morals (and these include most Catholics and a scattering of non-Catholics) defend papal diplomacy with pleas of necessity, adaptability, the ancient wisdom of the Church, and the long view, which in the case of Catholicism embraces eternity - a perspective so vast that differences between democracy and dictator ship sometimes blur to the ecclesiastical...
Greece entered the war, not only to defend herself, but also to regain at the peace table Greek-inhabited territories...
...been caught without an adequate plan of defense. They complained that many of their unit commanders were no good. The German soldiers fought well, and their divisions as a whole put up a performance which Allied commanders will remember when they assess the German Army's ability to defend the continent. But in captivity the Germans had the sound of men who knew that they were condemned to sacrificial defense, in an area which their superiors had expected to lose...
...Browder post): To defend the great American heritage of democracy...