Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Button will defend three titles in the next few months--the North American at Philadelphia in February, the world title in Paris (with University Hall permission) at the start of the spring term, and the National championship at Colorado Springs during Easter vacation...
Advocates of the pact maintain that since the United States is already morally committed to defend western Europe just as surely as if it were still filled with American soldiers no actual additional military obligation on our part would result from our participation. The advantages would be great. By putting our already-incurred commitments down on paper, we would do much to bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment...
...young Indian held a first-class ticket, but the guard ordered him to sit on the floor. When the Indian politely refused, the guard began to beat him furiously. The Indian showed no anger, made no attempt to defend himself, but he stuck to his seat...
Chiang held nothing back from the Suchow battle. He concentrated his armies east of the city, relying on the fall floods to defend the swampy plain to the north and northwest. He guessed right. The Reds concentrated their attack on the east, and Chiang's men were there to meet the assault of 400,000 Communist troops in one of the greatest battles of China's history...
...defend China's heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight...