Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Chavez was at home helping relatives and friends prepare to defend themselves against Federal indictments charging they used their WPA positions for political ends (TIME...
Granville Hicks denied last night having received a challenge which had allegedly been sent to him, asking him to defend his stand as an exponent of Communism in public debate...
...world's figure-skating championships were held in the U. S. for the first time. From Norway to defend her itle came dimpled 17-year-old Champion Sonja Henie, who gave an exhibition oi kating in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the likes of which New Yorkers had never seen. In 1932 she came again-for the Winter Olympic Games-and regained for a series of charity ice carnival n a dozen U. S. cities. Every pig-ta led girl who saw her swirling in a fairy-like froth of marabou dreamed that some day she might skate...
Night watchmen defend the rule merely because it is "orders," as one expressed it, and they will often "make exceptions" in favor of students who are caught, thus making themselves the victims of the 8 o'clock rule, although one insists that "It was an Eliot House man called me a dirty name once and I swore I'd never let anybody out again...
...build 1,200 a month. Explaining that French resistance to Mussolini held the chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much of his information came from Hero Charles Lindbergh (TIME...