Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch him defend his title in a 20-round bout against smart, nimble Bob Pastor, onetime New York University footballer with a fair-to-middling boxing record, 34,000 fight fans poured into Detroit's Briggs Stadium, paid up to $27.50 a seat. They saw what they expected to see. Fleet-footed Pastor-whose only claim to the challenger's role was the fact that he once lasted ten rounds against Louis-did the turkey trot, Lindy hop, chassé and Suzi-Q to keep out of the champion's waltzing range. Fleet-fisted Louis toppled...
...noted Communist author in his statement reiterates his faith in his Communist beliefs and his support of the Soviets, saying "I cannot now defend the pact, but I can conceive of history's justifying it . . . After all, the Soviet Union is a Socialist commonwealth, and, even if it makes mistakes, its fate is of the utmost concern to every believer in socialism...
...These wars in Europe are not wars in which our civilization is defending itself against some Asiatic intruder. . . . This is not a question of banding together to defend the white race against foreign invasion. This is simply one more of those age-old struggles within our family of nations-a quarrel arising from the errors of the last...
...Real Glory (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) is the Philippine Birth of a Nation. It begins when the U. S. Army withdraws from Mindanao, leaving a handful of officers to train the Filipinos to defend themselves against the aggressive Moros-as onetime U. S. Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur is now training them to defend themselves against the Japanese. "We who are about to die salute you," quotes the gloomy padre of Fort Mysang as the soldiers leave. This pessimistic view seems justified until Dr. Canavan (Gary Cooper), an Army surgeon with a Freudian attitude towards fear, gets to work...
...Canada also scrambled aboard last week, requested King George VI to proclaim that "a state of war exists between Canada and Germany"-which he promptly did. For the time being, Canada will participate in three ways: ship munitions to England, feed airmen into the Royal Air Force, defend herself. The last of these she was pitifully unprepared...