Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harmony" in the Anglo-American Far Eastern policy, and finally by warning the Communists of "prompt, resolute and effective" retaliation should a Korean truce be broken, the Prime Minister brought Washington and London into dramatic, forceful alignment. It was a bold gesture of leadership that he would have to defend before Parliament...
Counted in the number of those who refused to defend Barleycorn was a national distiller's association, the author of a book on the joys of the cocktail hour, and other advocates of social drinking...
...first chance to see it this fall, if Marlene decides to do Jacques Deval's new play, Samarkand. As for television: "I don't want to get into it yet. I'm waiting for it to get better. After all, I'll have to defend my title...
...truce talks. Before the new policy, the U.S. had little prospect of ending the Korean war in any way favorable to U.S. interests. Even if the Reds signed the truce and thereafter stayed quiet, the whole U.N. force would be tied up in the Korean area to defend and police the agreement. Under the new policy, the U.N. can walk away from the Korean truce line, saying over its shoulder: "Violate it, and the war will be brought...
...Defend a Line. Since the truce talks began, the U.N. has spent 30,000 casualties in U.S. troops alone in trying to fight its way through Bloody Ridge, the Punch Bowl, Heartbreak Ridge and the rest. Its goal was a defensible line on which to rest the truce. If the Administration had adopted the new policy in June, it might have saved the subsequent casualties. It could have accepted a truce at the "indefensible" 38th parallel, and defended that with a threat to open up on the China coast...