Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military leaders at Quantico, Va. last week with a word for reporters. He had nothing much to say about clamping down on interservice rivalry, nor about the decision that he must eventually, some day, take on what ground-to-air missiles the U.S. will deploy to defend itself. Instead Secretary McElroy noted that five of the.U.S.'s Atlas "operational" intercontinental missiles had failed in consecutive test firings, announced that Atlas would be delayed for "not less than 60 days," while the Air Force and Convair try to find out what is wrong...
...some time on his Virginia cattle farm and write a book, tentatively entitled Men and Decisions, about his Washington years. "It has been a privilege to have served our country for so many years," said he. "I have done the best I know how to do to protect and defend the national security, even when that was not the recognized, or easy, or popular course of action at the time. I leave with confidence that history will be just...
...caucus the same morning to state his case. Adenauer was conspicuously absent-asked by party aides to stay away-as Erhard rose to fume: "There seems to be a method behind [the Chancellor's] attitude . . . My reputation is to be systematically destroyed." For once, no one stood to defend the Chancellor, and one Erhard follower cried: "Ludwig, if you don't fight now, you will disqualify yourself for good...
...Austrians finally march into Visegrad on the heels of the routed Turks, in 1878, they find a disputatious Moslem named Alihodja on the bridge with his ear nailed to a beam. He had made the mistake of arguing with Turkish guerrillas who were urging the reluctant townspeople to defend Visegrad to the last...
...pound crew, which has not been defeated for two seasons, will defend the Thames Challenge Cup it captured last summer, meeting the Crowland Rowing Club in the first start. Both are expected to have an easy time of it in the early rounds...