Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That. To defend Syracuse against the Romans (215 B.C.), Archimedes contrived huge rock-throwing slings, long poles thrust from the city's walls to drop missiles on enemy heads, great cranes that hooked into the prows of the Roman ships and hoisted them into the air, "burning mirrors" with which (according to legend) he set the fleet afire. Plutarch reported that Archimedes so terrified the Romans that "if they did but see a little rope or a piece of wood from the city's walls . . . they turned their backs and fled." But they captured Syracuse...
With this in mind, I cannot defend nor justify Robert Sherrod's report ["After Two Years"] on the battle of Tarawa. ... In this particular report, whom did TIME think they were benefiting...
...women are ready to point out that Russia's war is on her own soil, that British homes have been bombed; if U.S. women had to defend their homes they would join just as valorously; if they could even take a more active part in the war, they would join...
Behind the Algiers Committee lay some seven months of painful, slow accomplishment; ahead, its hardest task. What the Committee wanted now, on the eve of invasion, was full recognition as the provisional government of France. It could defend the right to represent all France with better logic than most Allied-sponsored governments in exile. But, in official Allied opinion, it did not have their legitimacy...
...told. No names. No arrests as yet. But every Chilean thought of the arrogant "Colonels Clique" of Argentina and of its suspected desire to organize similar Fascist regimes in neighboring countries. Said Arturo Espinoza, Army commander in chief: "The Army is awake with its eyes wide open and will defend the Constitutional Government...