Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stalwart gang of some 60 Harvards added insult to injury after the Princeton squeaker last Saturday, when they outfought about 300 Nassau followers in a battle for the goalposts. The Princeton Freshmen had been instructed the preceding night to defend the sacred posts with their very lives in the event of a Crimson victory, but the brothers, were unable to withstand a determined Harvard line...
Then, paternally, he said: "... It would certainly be an error ... for us to plunge into a program of promises and bribes," but "these are some of our objectives: to defend and develop empire trade ... to promote all measures to improve the health and social conditions of the people ... to support as a general rule free enterprise and initiative against state trading and nationalization of industries." Quickly changing the subject, he bitterly assailed the Labor Government with vacillating in Palestine, leaving India's "helpless millions" under "what new power...
...favorite ways of tormenting himself, the professor notes, is to consider himself lower than the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air-to see all animals as "furry little parables." The noble stag, for example, is famed for his readiness to defend his trembling does; in fact, he always runs like hell and rejoins the ladies only when danger is past...
...surprise result matched Snow against his old friend and onetime Wesleyan President, G.O.P. nominee James L. McConaughy (rhymes with Donahay). At Wesleyan, President McConaughy used to defend the radical lectures of popular Professor Snow against indignant New England trustees...
...sword priests and the more eminent of the faithful. . . . The number of dead priests is 243; 169 are in prison. We admit that some priests, blinded by national or party passion, sinned . . . in a way for which they must render account to lay courts. . . . We do not intend to defend the guilty...