Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese, I find your cover story on Premier Ky [Feb. 18] excellent. At last people will understand that the government is doing its best to defend and help the people...
Some ask about the risks of a wider war, perhaps against the vast land armies of Red China. And again, the answer is no. We have threatened no one, and we will not. We seek the end of no regime, and we will not. Our purpose is solely to defend against aggression. To any armed attack, we will reply...
KING AND COUNTRY. The trial and execution of a pathetic World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) mean agony for the officer (Dirk Bogarde) assigned to defend him in this rigorous British drama by Joseph Losey (The Servant...
...rally the shattered Wehrmacht forces around the capital. He relished the experience: hasty lunches of pea soup in a forest command post, ducking into ditches to avoid strafing Allied fighters, brave speeches to the scared kids and old men in ill-fitting Volkssturm helmets who had been left to defend a crossroads. Keitel devotes five fat paragraphs to a description of how he revamped the defenses of Rathenow, a sleepy hamlet that was threatened by the Russians...
Austerity in Appliances. Trying to stem inflation and hence to defend the pound, Wilson's government also stiffened the terms for consumer installment buying-for the second time in seven months. Minimum down payments on most appliances went up from 15% to 25%; in deference to Britain's climate the minimum for stoves and water heaters remained at 10%. Maximum payment times were cut from 30 to 24 months for appliances, from 36 to 30 months for furniture, from 30 to 27 months for autos. Television sets, which most Britons lease rather than buy, will require 32 instead...