Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds were doing their best to defend their airfields and oil depots. Near Seoul, U.S. planes drew fire from a large number of 20-mm. antiaircraft guns and from some guns above 50-mm. ; bombing oil tanks at Wonson, U.S. airmen met what they believed to be their first radar-controlled antiaircraft fire in Korea...
Early in the tennis season, hunch-shouldered Ted Schroeder felt he had to make a choice. He could defend his Wimbledon title in early July, or he could stay home and help defend the Davis Cup against the Australians in August. The U.S.'s top-ranking amateur was too busy earning a living (as a salesman of refrigeration equipment) to do both. Much to the relief of the Davis Cup selection committee, Ted decided to stay home...
...Nationalist China must not be infringed-it is of utmost importance that everyone understand that this principle will be upheld to any extent and in any way necessary by the Nationalist forces on Formosa. Nationalist China is not defenseless; it has large forces on Formosa, and they will defend Formosa against anyone who seeks to infringe the sovereignty of Nationalist China...
There is plenty of evidence that the bloody-minded professors under the Spasski clock miscalculated the time of day in the U.S. For 36 hours after President Truman's announcement that the U.S. would defend Korea, the Soviet press and officials were mum. Had they expected the U.S. move, they would have instructed Jacob Malik, their U.N. delegate, to take his seat at the Security Council and veto any U.N. action. When the Council convened, Malik was not there, and the U.S. gained the immense advantage of U.N. backing...
...Secretary for War John Strachey called the Schuman Plan "this plot," and attacked the coal-steel authority as "an irresponsible international body free from all democratic control." In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill demanded an explanation of this inflammatory speech. Harassed Prime Minister Attlee tried to defend Strachey, ended by saying himself that it was "perfectly fair" to say the Schuman Plan would put very wide powers "into the hands of an irresponsible authority...