Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action unlike any that diplomatic history had known, seemed called for to answer Hitler's. But the imaginations of peace were not productive. Memories of Munich, when Mr. Chamberlain had acted outside the tradition of his class and country, stifled them; the democracies could wait, prepare, plan, answer, defend, but they could not come through with an action for peace as inspired as Hitler's had been...
Rumania was aggrandized in the aftermath of Versailles with not only Transylvania, but Bessarabia, a fertile parcel of old Russia. This might become a Soviet objective-more than Rumania could hope to defend, especially with Nazi pressure from the West...
Last week, when the Women's National Championship was played at the Wee Burn Club in Noroton, Conn., the topflight women golfers of the U. S. could look the menfolk square in the eye. Redheaded, 21-year-old Patty Berg, No. 1 woman golfer, was unable to defend her title because of a recent appendectomy. But there were 198 other girls (including the champions of two foreign countries) who kept the galleries beguiled. Outstanding were...
...week two events dramatically demonstrated how greatly Axis pressure in the Balkans had changed, not only Rumania, but King Carol. Rumania celebrated her Navy Day, dedicated her Tashaul Base. On the destroyer Regina Maria the King warned a select audience of plans for carving rich Rumania: "The determination to defend our frontiers must exist in the soul of every Rumanian. . . . Whatever is Rumanian cannot be given away, whatever is Rumanian will be defended. . . . If anyone loves peace, he must realize that the frontiers as now marked out cannot be changed without the danger of a worldwide disaster. . . . My affection...
...text: Tennessee was losing T.E.P.'s taxes, was losing a company that had given good service at low prices, was buying T.E.P. "for about four-fifths of its real value." "Our hope," he wound up sardonically, "is that they [Tennesseeans] will never be required to defend a business of their own against Government-subsidized competition...