Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a shrewd suspicion of the probable result, no attempt was made to defend London from air attack. Britain was divided in two, "Redland" and "Blueland." The official problem set "Redland's" commander would have taxed a Napoleon: to defend the mines and factories of northern manufacturing Britain, to preserve a way out of the country for minerals, inward for food and supplies. Real problem of the maneuvers was to test the comparative efficiency of day bombers and interceptors. Redland was given the fastest fighting planes, Blueland the fastest bombers...
...Poland is set!" screamed the Gazeta Polska, "and ready to defend her frontiers to the last drop of blood...
...Defending his orders not to shoot to defend his prisoners, Sheriff Campbell said: "One shot would have been the signal for a terrible slaughter...
...girlhood. She and her husband and son are thorough refutations of the tradition that polo, game of the rich, is controlled by snobs. The Hitchcock influence is largely responsible for the new feeling that real polo talent from anywhere in the land is welcome on Long Island to help defend the Cup. At least one Californian seems sure to be on the team this year, for the first time. And among others invited to join the international squad this year was Cecil Smith, Texas cowboy, a natural-born...
With the Nationalist troops which normally protect central China withdrawn to defend Nanking from the advancing Peking war lords, a raggle-taggle army swept down on the river city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province, and laid it low. Correspondents were unanimous in describing the Changsha looters as a Communist army. Only such precisians as the U. S. State Department put the word in quotation marks. For although it was probable that avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city...