Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot in the wide world has taken such sustained and savage bombing. To defend it the British have paid dearly. But still they cling. If the world wonders, the British have a twofold answer...
...asking too much of civilians to give up a little of their comfort so that some one else might win security for them? The President speaks of more & more sacrifices. Sacrifices-hell! Is it a sacrifice to defend one's self against impending disaster? What a ludicrous and tragic situation that soldiers must beg, actually beg, for arms to defend people who, by their very actions, don't seem to give a damn. The fine American institution of the Sunday motor trip is far more important than a boatload of supplies to the tankmen and aviators in Egypt...
...mountains. In fact, they discovered they could bring heavier 25-pounders themselves when they decided to go forward over the smaller peaks. The Japs had dug trenches, set up machine-gun nests in the roots of trees, piled up log barricades-but evidently thought better of their plan to defend their foremost ridge, 88 long miles over the mountains from their Buna supply base...
...Sorlien and Ted Cohn, all Varsity players from last spring's team, have signed up for the University Tennis Tournament which starts this week. Notably absent from the tournament list, which closes today at 5 o'clock, was Al Everts, present University champion, who will not be able to defend his title because of an operation undergone recently...
...shapes of double-decker beds, and the war bond thermometer looking down on the Square, although these things are certainly part of the change. It's rather a feeling, growing stronger with every headline, that Harvard's way of life is becoming increasingly incompatible with our effort to defend...