Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement, made in an Arabic broadcast, said two women had been killed by shells fired by Spanish troops. He declared the army he commands as chief of staff is ready to defend its territory against anyone...
...another opportunity to ladle out the easy-does-it philosophy that carried him to the chairmanship of the Southern Governors' Conference and a national reputation as one of the South's staunchest moderates. Collins urged convention-gathered members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association to "develop and defend a public atmosphere free of racial fears and bigotry." Declared he earnestly: the South must stop fighting the Supreme Court, discard the idea of massive resistance, "seize the opportunity to clear the emotional atmosphere and undertake our rightful responsibilities...
...should break out, NATO forces would deploy to defend Europe and the West, but not the geographical integrity of their most exposed European member, West Germany. Since taking over as the federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
...their first winter of blizzards and long, lonely nights, 600 Americans and Canadians (98% of them civilian technicians who earn up to $13,800 a year) man the isolated DEW line stations, watching luminescent oscilloscopes in darkened rooms. Without the ability to intercept or even to defend themselves (an attack on them would in itself constitute a warning, and thus fulfill the DEW line's purpose), they have a single mission: to detect penetration of the radar fence by unidentified aircraft...
...desire to determine the sources of Freud's ideas and actions. His worshipful attitude towards Freud--"And so we take leave of a man whose like we shall not know again. He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead."--is quite often annoyning. But Jones does not fail to defend himself at great length about the instances when Freud criticized...