Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonished by what they saw. One British chambermaid noted that beneath his pillow the Russian kept a pistol. Mrs. Roosevelt's servants reported that Molotov had brought a chunk of black bread, a roll of sausage, and a pistol. "Mr. Molotov evidently thought he might have to defend himself, and also that he might be hungry," Mrs. Roosevelt confided. "I liked him very much...
...MacArthur's apartment the two men, amid the general's Oriental souvenirs, chatted happily, and MacArthur did almost all of the talking. The general thought that U.S. troops should be pulled out of Japan the moment Japan becomes ready to defend itself; he did not think that the Soviet Union would invade Japan unless it could first convert it to Communism; he was quite sure that Japan would succeed in rebuilding its economy because it would never develop "the philosophy that dominates the thinking of so many white people-to do as little as possible...
Sergeant James Gallagher, looking blandly poised, took the stand last week to defend himself against charges that he had consorted with the Chinese Communists while a prisoner of war in Korea, and had caused the deaths of three of his comrades (TIME, Aug. 22). Before him in the courtroom on Governors Island in New York Harbor sat a court-martial of three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels and a major; behind him, amid the rows of spectators, sat his mother...
...allies. Meanwhile, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, the U.S. and U.N. supreme commander in the Far East, flew to Seoul and told Rhee to his face that "neither hell nor high water" would persuade the U.S. to renege on its solemn commitment to abide by the Korean armistice and defend the NNSC...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...