Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon blundered in announcing that he would defend Quemoy and Matsu. The American people are not willing to risk the start of World War III over these two piles of rocks on the doorstep of Communist China! Berlin and Formosa, yes; Quemoy and Matsu...
...international tensions and the armaments race I believe that these two conditions are good for the U.S. We are not now about to go to sleep while they exist, and as long as Communism knows we are ready, willing and able to spill blood, American and other, to defend that freedom, it will not be lost to us and our children...
...last week, as controversy over the bishops' prohibition boiled across the island, the campaign at last had its issue: the separation of church and commonwealth. Aboard his campaign bus Muñoz toured the countryside to defend himself against the bishops. "The day you begin to follow the political orders of the clergy," he cried, "that day you will lose your freedom." Muñoz pointed out that the legality of birth control, one of the bishops' points of protest, was established in 1937 by the Statehood Republicans, not by his Popular Democrats...
Other Democrats are afraid of Meyer's ideas and find them difficult to defend. One factory owner from Bennington, important figure in the State, was certain that Meyer should have tempered his arguments to appeal to different voter groups. "Whenever I start talking about Bill Meyer," he observed, "I get into fights, sometimes even first fights. I wish he'd made more of an effort to get the veteran's vote--Armistice Day is too late--by toning down his ideas on the draft...
...figure out the easiest and fastest way to get over the goal line," says Schwartzwalder. "Well, we don't concentrate on the easiest or fastest way. We just concentrate on getting there. We believe in massing our men, and we start at tackle and make the enemy defend that spot so heavily he'll be weak elsewhere. The only way you can run effectively over that tackle is to double-team him. We usually have our tackle hit him low, and then our end hits him high...