Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives of any company should so depart from the standards set by the utility industry in general. It is acts like this, committed by a small number of companies, which have brought discredit upon the industry and which have made it necessary for us to come to Washington to defend ourselves against a bill seeking to destroy...
...they had set the fire, or at least that their mouths could be stopped by execution. In stead the Supreme Court acquitted all except the half-witted Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe. During the trial, fiery Bulgarian Dimitroff not only studied German judicial procedure and earned the right to defend himself but hurled it with such withering invective at No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and President of the Reichstag, that the beefy Brownshirt completely lost control of himself, screamed at the stocky Bulgar in court like a madman...
...stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they swore "to defend maidens, widows and orphans" and to "suffer no extortion" to be practiced which they are able to prevent...
...great many cases a child misbehaves because that is the only way he knows to defend himself from unpleasant household situations. And in many cases a child misbehaves because his mother spoils him or puts naughty notions in his head. Dr. Kanner gets children to talk their hearts out to him by being friendly and sympathetic, by never startling them or lying to them or belittling their intelligence...
...example of how the Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular munitions companies...