Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accusation was enough to make Joe Martin & Co. give pause. Already three Republican Senators-Pennsylvania's Jim Duff and Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge and Leverett Saltonstall-had broken ranks to defend Truman's right to act. If the MacArthur issue was to be broad enough to include the eastern internationalists in the G.O.P (generally more interested in Europe than Asia), such forthright Republicans as California's Bill Knowland (who favors the decisive course in both Asia and Europe) and such high & dry isolationists as Indiana's Homer Capehart and Illinois' Everett Dirksen (who frequently...
...President Lincoln removed General George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. They had been in disagreement for a long time. Lincoln (like MacArthur) believed that McClellan's mission was to defeat the enemy. McClellan (like Truman) believed that the objective was to defend a piece of ground. McClellan (like MacArthur) had thousands of devoted admirers, and his removal was certain to bring a torrent of political criticism down on Lincoln's head...
...Standing on It." The canoe carried the party across the river, and after a brief portage, across a lake. Each time, Orlando went last. On the far side of the lake he found the elders drawn up in council circle. Komatzi spoke for two hours, calling upon Orlando to defend the old men, women & children of the tribe in case of canaiba revenge. Orlando replied: "I give the Kalapalos my word and the word of the great father, there will be no revenge...
...Guardian, however, expanded our beliefs into a swipe at President Conant. It said "among those currently plagued by 'safe plodding' the CRIMSON editors may have had in mind . . . Dr. Conant, who in February came out for 'continual flow into the armed forces of those who reach 18 . . . to defend the free world'." It was wrong. We had in mind only what we said: that there was a regrettable trend towards the stifling of unpopular opinion. We had nothing to say about the President's statement, with which we largely agree, and which is politically very far from "safe plodding...
...before Korea, Britain was doing more than the U.S. to prepare against Russia, by whatever standard anyone wanted to take-percentage of men in uniform or percentage of national income spent on arms. "Get this," he added. "England is the only nation in the world which would fight to defend itself even if the U.S. did not come to her aid." I felt convinced...