Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Letters Column, Randolph S. Churchill says TIME was wrong in referring to Czechoslovakia as "Britain's ally" and denounces the "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S. Mr. Churchill implies that the respective positions of Great Britain and the U.S. towards Czechoslovakia were...
...made a brief but deadly trip over Worms, Germany. Next morning, when the fires died, little was left of the old Rhineland city. One of the worst casualties among its historic buildings was the 1,100-year-old Magnuskirche, where Martin Luther preached in 1521 when he came to defend his doctrines at the Diet of Worms against the Pope's theologians. German Lutherans have since regarded the Magnuskirche as the world's first Protestant church...
...Royal Khmer (i.e., Cambodian) army. The Reds posed as patriots, burning to liberate Cambodia from French imperialism; in fact they were the vanguard of an uglier imperialism: Communist China's. Waist-deep in swamp and jungle fighting in the Red River delta, the French could do little to defend their Cambodian proteges from Communist attack. Instead, the 3,000,000 Cambodians relied on their monarch, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk...
...Mathias totaled 7,825 points (under a new decathlon scoring system), 382 more than his 1950 world record and 770 more than Runner-Up Milton Campbell, an 18-year-old Plainfield, N.J. high-school student.* The victory made Mathias, who did not defend his title last year, the first man in U.S. decathlon history ever to win the event four times...
Despite the anger of its rank & file, N.E.A. officials also did their best to smooth things over. Though the grumbling continued in private, the N.E.A. unanimously adopted a resolution "deploring" the Legion's article, recalling the cordial cooperation of the two organizations, and asking for space to defend itself in the Legion magazine...