Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth, EDC had stood in danger of being killed by its enemies; but at Brussels it was EDC's friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength of an ideal...
...definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late. Out of such a conglomeration is apt to come a maximum of rhetoric and a mini mum of commitment...
...Formosa be placed under U.N. trusteeship. "Taiwan is inviolable Chinese territory," Chou declared. "Its liberation . . . is an exercise of China's sovereignty and China's own internal affair." The Red Premier accused the U.S. of occupying Red Chinese territory by sending arms and instructors to help Formosa defend itself. "This increases the danger...
...boozy philosophies, hit Chicago again and tried out his old beat in Women's Court. Reported Byliner Hecht: "In the 30 years since my byline was visible in this newspaper . . . things have changed, including possibly the shape of the earth. But . . . she was still there . . . trying to defend her wicked ways . . . The officer had spotted her talking earnestly to a strange man on the street corner . . . With her run-over heels and tongue-tied soul [she] will be the only thing the atom bomb will never change or remove...
...years ago, when he won the light-heavyweight championship in St. Louis, Moore's share of the purse came to a reported $1,492. Even then, the owl-eyed operators who make matches in the smoky back rooms refused to give him a break. Archie had to defend his title in Ogden. Utah, later in Miami. It was no way to grow rich...