Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks well-fed; his jowls are heavy and his stomach folds over his belt. Briskly, he assails the Western powers for "looting" Berlin and denounces-with no supporting proof-removal of its factories to the Western zones. All but the Communists guffaw. But Bruno perorates bravely: "We must defend the workers of Berlin whose factories and jobs are being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows, the frantic handclapping of a single S.E.D. delegate echoes hollowly. It is nearly tea time and the British observers leave their bench. The Russian's attention wanders and he files...
...most part the game was played and scored like tennis. But there were also openings along the cowshed walls, which the players had to defend like goalies. If the server during play hit the ball into either of two small openings (the grille and winning gallery) it counted a point for him. The receiver had one wide opening (the dedans) to aim for. If either put a ball through the other side openings it counted against him. It was a game that required skill even more than stamina. The first day, Pierre, the old master...
...ever justified? Yes, says the commission, when it is undertaken: 1) to redress a grave injury committed by another state; 2) to defend one's country against attack; 3) to help a belligerent "whose cause . . . [one] believes to be just." But, the report adds, war must be waged with a right intention-"the establishment of peace founded in justice...
Meanwhile, another group embarks for Yale. The Crimson debaters will defend UMT and the draft here and oppose them in New Haven. This is the second year the debates have been...
...correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...