Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost out in the quarter-finals of the N.C.A.A.'s last year. He will defend his A.A.U. title at Cornell next weekend...
...been gathering for months, Perón decided last year, about two months before top army officers vetoed his plan to make his wife Vice President, that he needed some sort of militia or storm-trooper organization. The President himself drew up a confidential "Workers' Defense Plan" to "defend the government in the event of military action against it." Five thousand descamisados of "absolute confidence" were enrolled, divided into "shock troop" detachments, "special mission" units and "reserves...
...over-crowded auditorium maximum is still proceeding, when the first wounded are brought back by their friends. They had moved to the cinema, and while demonstrating there, criminal police in civilian cloth began using billy-sticks. The students, unaware that they were confronting members of the police, began to defend themselves, at which moment the uniformed police began to interfere, too. The son of the town mayor is knocked down with the shout: "You socialist swines...
...pound, class Lowell's Marty Greenberger will defend his title against Funster Johnny Haviloch...
Fortunately. News of England (1938), Beverley's proletarian polemic, was his last causal fling. While other Britons dug trenches in the parks and queued for gas masks, he turned to creating something that would "defend . . . small and beautiful things against ... the mass ugliness and beastliness of the herd." His labors resulted in a domed, floodlit hothouse, planned to resemble "a gigantic reproduction of one of Queen Mary's hats...