Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends who find themselves unable to support their pacifism by tradition or creed sometimes defend it by saying that it is the requirement of Christianity. They have a case. The spirit enjoined by the New Testament was plainly one of love and mercy. But surely it was a spirit that Jesus enjoined, not an iron rule. If keeping a rule involved worse evils than its breach, Jesus broke it without a qualm. . . . It is impossible to make Jesus out to be a consistent pacifist even in personal relations, let alone international relations...
...Give me a typewriter. . . . Hey, fellas, whaddaya know! Hippocrates G. Apostle just got out of Stillman! . . . Well, well,--so Johnnie Robbine is dead . . . Parson Fenn say's he's got a swell idea for an ed on the town-grown relationship . . . Hey, Charlie! How about chewing gum? . . . Let's defend the pipe . . . It's Lincoln's birthday tomorrow; we might run condolences for all his friends and relatives . . . 125,000 Babies by 1943 . . . Hey! I'm on Dean's List...
...Eighth Army as a whole is greener to the desert than it used to be. Its veteran core-upward of 50,000 leathery Australians-was called back to defend its homeland...
...long had men trained in anti-tank tactics, armed with stationary artillery to defend infantry positions, supplemented with a bag of tank-hampering tricks including "asparagus beds" (barricades) and traps borrowed from the engineers, "Molotov cocktails" learned from the Spanish, and "boom biscuits" (tank mines). At Camp Hood men learn to use all these, but most important, they are learning how to handle tank destroyers. The phrase "antitank" is disappearing in favor of "tank destroyer...
...minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. . . . Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test, of the sincerity with which we cling to the Bill of Rights. If those of us who belong to the larger groups do not defend the rights of persons with whom we disagree, and whom we may actually detest, we are confessing that we hold our own rights on sufferance, or by our numbers, or by our political or other power...