Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ravines dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling along the Volga for 25-miles, Stalingrad's shoestring outline provides not even a compact area to defend. A break-through at any point could cut the defending forces...
...years before Pearl Harbor: "An airplane carrier . . . is in reality a capital ship of much greater offensive power than any battleship." When General Billy Mitchell was court-martialed, the old Admiral (who described his own career as "largely getting into trouble with the principal dignitaries") stood up to defend...
...India than it has been for 150 years. But what would save India, said General Wavell, was her "fighting men," not "undisciplined schoolboys" and "ignorant hooligans." Indians groaned at the slipshod arrogance of the military mind. They demanded, as before, that the Indian masses be armed and allowed to defend themselves under their own leaders...
...Brazil's declaration of war involves both advantages and disadvantages to the United States," stated Clarence H. Harking '07, Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics. "As Brazil does not possess adequate military, naval, or air forces to defend herself against attack by the Axis, responsibility for her defense devolves upon...
...with Japan had entered its second phase. Every one of the Japanese occupied lands, from Malaya to the Solomons, was still a threat of a new Japanese offensive. But every one was also a place to be attacked, and therefore to be defended-a sponge sucking at Japan's limited total of men, ships and planes. The prospect that seemed empty and wishful when the Japs were advancing was now a reality. The Japs were now the defenders, and they had to choose places to let go by default-as perhaps they did last week in China...