Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scraped into World War I as a subaltern at the age of 18, made the retreat from the Somme. In 1919 he was part of a hush-hush force in the Caspian Sea area which helped defend the White Russian fleet from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made...
...Germans whom I had met at the Seminar struck me as unpleasant, stiff, humorless people; and that this, with other things I saw and heard during my trip, convinced me that Germany is an exceedingly dangerous nation. Mr. Amfitheatrof reshaped what I said, which just now I will defend against anyone, into quotation that his caused such distress...
...keenly aware of the danger as those who suffered directly from Nazi evil. They are confused by charges which associate Nazi crimes with traditional German nationalism; they are tempted to justify the war and to blame the Allies for failing to understand that they were really fighting to defend the West . . . They are, in short, a much-perplexed people, trying to find their way out of a deeply disturbing and humiliating experience without loss of self-confidence and self-respect." Mc-Cloy's conclusion: "The all-prevailing power of the [Nazis] has left many former officials with a longing...
...have the gift of gab." Then, Lewis D. Gilbert, who owns stock in 600-odd corporations, including twelve shares in Macy's, and makes an avocation of harassing corporate boards, threw a question at President Jack I. Straus: "What does Mr. Montgomery know about merchandising?" Straus tried to defend Montgomery's qualifications as a director. After all, he said, several of the other directors had not known much about retailing when they had joined the board. Snorted Gilbert: "Maybe that's what's wrong with Macy...
...model democracy,' the United States." The anti-American Argentine press gave the Baker line as big a play as the U.S. election results as she charged Ike Eisenhower with racial discrimination: "Colored people will suffer as they have never suffered. And white people who dare defend them will be persecuted in such a way the famous German persecutions will be kid stuff. May God have pity on them." In Washington the Immigration Department indicated that should Singer Baker care to re-enter the U.S., she would have to prove her right and worth. Said Josephine Baker, who gave...