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Word: defenders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading that women passionately defend high heels because they are a focus of erotic attention: Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scolding Show | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...French used to call Metz La Pucelle ("the Virgin"). Up to last week this historic Lorraine stronghold had never been taken by storm. Attila's Huns destroyed it in 451 A.D., but there were no Roman legions there to defend it. It was still in possession of the French when they surrendered in 1870, of the Germans in the autumn of 1918. The French claim that quislings gave it up in 1940. Last week, for the first time, Metz gave way under attack-by Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: La Pucelle | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Whether the Russians were holding off direct attack to save the city or save their troops, no one could tell. But the Germans said Budapest would never be declared an open city, announced they would "defend it street by street without regard to consequences to the city or its population." The Hungarian puppet Government echoed them uneasily, prodded its soldiers with promises. Said the War Minister: troops will receive higher pay, postwar jobs, and "I have every hope that every fighting man will be provided with adequate warm clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: On the Flank | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...sense of destiny was destined to fall foul of the suspicions of other Latin American countries; of the fact that Argentines have long believed that their special role is willy-nilly to defend the South American continent against the Colossus of the North; and of the fact that the U.S., engaged in a life & death struggle with the Axis, was lining up the Latin American nations on her side under the guise of the Good Neighbor Policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Boss of the GOU | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...MacArthur's hastily prepared air strips could accommodate only fighters during the battle's first fortnight, but the fighters were busy. Their task was not only to defend eastern Leyte's installations and supply dumps, but also to work as bombers against Jap airfields on Cebu and Negros. The first job was harder than the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Fireworks on Leyte | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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