Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to grow during the Eisenhower-Taft battle for the nomination last year. The old smalltime party bosses aimed to deliver their delegates for Bob Taft. But a wave of new Republicans, led by men who were interested in building a second party in the South, rose up to defend Eisenhower. After the election, the new Southern G.O.P. leaders got busy cultivating their political gardens with an eye toward the long-range future...
...When we see Kentucky and Mississippi arguing as to who was responsible for the discovery of the mint julep [TIME, July 20], without even a mention of the Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right...
...jail seven times, for a total of nine years; he also fought religious hatred: "Not only Moslems," he taught, "but Sikhs and Hindus are living in want." In this struggle, Sheik Abdullah gained the intense loyalty of most Kashmiris, the friendship of Jawaharlal Nehru (who came to Kashmir to defend him in the Maharaja's courts), and the title "Sher-i-Kashmir" (Lion of Kashmir...
...Communist strategists ordered the North Korean attack, never dreaming that the U.S. or the U.N. would fight them. The U.S. had plainly said it would not defend South Korea, and it was in no military position to do so. Total defeat in Korea was narrowly averted. Victory began-and with it arose a confusion about the U.N. goals. The U.S. was running the war, supplying the bulk of the troops, and to it belonged the main responsibility for defining the objectives of the war. When its policymakers failed, the voices of the . U.S. allies began to make themselves felt...
...Silent Partners. In one mood, Mussolini would defend all his sedulous aping of the Nazis on the ground that "Italy will never be sufficiently Prussianized." In another, he would harbor black, if fanciful, designs against his ally: "I shall combine the whole world into a coalition against Germanism. And we shall crush Germany for at least two centuries." What irked the Italians most was that they were treated as silent partners of the Axis, and only called in when matters reached the sign-on-the-dotted-line stage. After the Austrian Anschluss, "the Duce was in a mood of irritation...