Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best they learn is implicit in the vow they take, "that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ... so help me God." The history of World War II is filled with the names of men who died in fulfillment of that solemn oath...
Back from the wars to help Ohio State defend its Big Ten title came Paul Sar-ringhaus, the 200-lb. passing and plunging ace of '42. With All-America Guard Bill Hackett recovered from a summer auto accident, Ohio State was the Big Ten team to beat...
This is an extraordinary and encouraging sign. Usually each side has sought to beat the other to the punch by releasing the in formation with which to defend itself against the breakdowns which marked each former fruitless session." Cooperation from the North. Russians in Manchuria waited for representatives of the Chinese Central Government...
General Anami was a military mystic. He once called on Japan's soldiers "to defend the Imperial land even after death with your souls." When he heard the news of his son's death in battle, his only visible emotion was to crush a flower bud in his hand. He held out against surrender. Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg . . . pardon ... for my great sins") and a poem...
Security from Terror? When the United Nations met at San Francisco they drafted a peculiar charter for a peculiar world in which a few powers seemed far stronger than all the others together. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. relied fundamentally on the belief that they could defend themselves. That was the meaning of the one-power veto and many another charter provision...