Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like them to attack in large numbers because then we can mow them down," said Major General William Hinde, director of military operations in Kenya. With Lyttelton's approval, he ordered 10,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, recruited to defend their homes, to be armed with shotguns. Yet as Lyttelton plainly saw, stamping out the Mau Mau would require more than shotguns. The problem, as in Malaya, is to assure the majority of natives of the government's concern for their welfare, and to protect them against the Mau Mau. Snapped General Sir Cameron Nicholson: "We need a great...
...Many states have eliminated capital punishment entirely; in Maine, Michigan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin the heaviest penalty is life imprisonment. But many have not. Some state statute books provide for the death penalty in crimes ranging from train wrecking to rape and arson. Those who defend these laws base their arguments on three basic points; retribution; protection of society; and deterrence of future crimes through example...
...cloak & dagger" meetings, finally decided that he did not like the party's denial of free speech. Wiping tears from his eyes with both hands, Shaw said he had never meant to be disloyal. Said he: "I want to do everything I can, as I always have, to defend American institutions and American folkways. This country has been very kind to me. I started out as a minority member of a poor family and I have come a long...
Stand Fast. In the Middle East, Churchill gave warning that Britain will stand fast until the Egyptian government signs an international agreement providing adequate defense for the Canal Zone. If the Egyptian army, "which is being aided and trained by Nazi instructors," tries any monkey tricks, Britain will defend itself. "Unfortunately," he growled, "it was necessary for Naguib to gain as much popularity as possible by the well-known process of taking it out on the British...
...leisure in a London suburb, Nicholas was always searching for objects to attack. His three quailing sons, his disspirited wife, even the ants in his garden. At breakfast the family waited nervously for his spluttering comments on the news, alternating with loud, wet spoonfuls of porridge. He started a "Defend Britain Club" to save the country from dangerous ideas and to raise the standards of cricket...