Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such great institutions as this to their knees can only be described as ''creeping socialism," and it is, in my mind, gradually undermining the whole structure of American society . . . Although I ... would never be able to own one of Mr. Nevins' boats ... I would and will defend to my death the rights of more fortunate people to acquire such property...
...incompetent, waiting for something to turn up.' ... All of us know now that we have failed to stand our ground when we should stand, and are failing to build our strength while we still may have the time to build it ... God has given us the opportunity to defend [our] way of life through adequate military strength. The sooner we attain that strength, the sooner we can halt the present drift towards a helplessness which can only result in the loss of the free world...
...court order requiring Flynn to cough up $128.80. This, she charged, was the amount she anted up to pay his unpaid bills after he moved out like Flynn. When he got the bad word, Flynn gave a defiant performance. "I shall not pay!" cried he. "I will defend this to the end [even though] it may cost me ten times as much as paying off-or 100 times . . . I'm mad . . . I'll fight to the death-even if I have to fly back here [i.e., London] from California." Harry Truman, after 19 days in the Kansas City...
...must have help from somewhere. I am willing to give it to them ... I am willing to spend some billions to help our allies and other democracies of the world to be strong and stay strong ... I plead with you ... to do the thing here today to preserve, protect, defend and perpetuate not only this, the greatest democracy that ever existed in all the tide of time, but the other democracies of this unhappy, this distraught and this dangerous world...
...Wilson, strode onto the flat, tiled roof of Japan's yellow brick Pentagon, past Japanese army, navy and air force officers snapped to attention, and said: "Peace cannot be attained with folded arms . . . It is the duty of our country to complete the arrangements through which it could defend itself with its own hands." With that, Japan officially began rearming...