Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Dulles, without naming the islands, clarified the U.S. position on Quemoy and Matsu. What he said was simple, almost trite: he warned the Communists again that if they persisted in regarding these islands as stepping stones to Formosa, and if they attacked them, the U.S., committed to defend Formosa, might accept the Communist definition of such an assault as the beginning of an attack on Formosa and retaliate accordingly...
Afraid that its national reputation was also at stake, the Crimson sextet was quick to check back to defend its goal each time a Bruin skater grabbed a loose puck or intercepted a pass. Although the varsity held the edge on the game's offensive play, goalie Charley Flynn was continually forced to match brilliant saves with Halvorsen
Kemble also said he wished to correct any impression that since students here had not been directly asked to contribute, their gifts would not be welcome. He had avoided a student appeal, he added, because the committee felt that the job of raising money to defend Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, was primarily a faculty concern and that the drive should not receive too much publicity...
Three times the U.S. was on the point of announcing that it would defend Quemoy and Matsu, but at the last moment Dwight Eisenhower, to soothe British fears, vetoed it. He thought U.S. intentions were already clear enough "to make certain that no conflict occurs through mistaken calculations on the other side . . . We have been as exact as it seems possible...
...Communist China can say no quicker than yes. It accepted an Oct. 2, 1950 invitation to sit in on the Formosa debate only after letting 21 days pass. Invited to defend the Chinese invasion of Korea in November 1950, it took only three days...