Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year had Réné Lacoste or Henri Cochet of France been entered. But Lacoste was so seriously ill in the Swiss Alps that he may never be able to play again, and Cochet, treated arrogantly by U. S. officials last year, had not returned to defend his title. Thus the tournament resolved itself before the finals into a contest between Tilden and the generation of younger players whom he has always so far been able to beat...
Last week the Zionist Executive Council and the National Council of Palestine Jews issued in vain a call to "National discipline and calm behavior." Jew-baiting by Arabs and raucous rabbles grew worse daily. While Jews banded together to defend themselves against a mighty pogrom, events occurred with wartime rapidity...
...well balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than decrease'' amply prove, it seems to me, some of the main contentions of Rope and Faggot-the inherent lawlessness of certain parts of the United States and trigger-on." :k propensities to defend positions which are morally, ethically and practically indefensible. Such correspondents of yours as Messrs. Robert E. Lee and Eldon O. Haldane reassure me. The reviews of Rope and Faggot have dwelt almost without exception upon the judicial, impartial tone of the book. . . . Messrs. Lee and Haldane by their denunciation of me will help...
Their mission: To defend or to abandon the 25% ad valorem tariff on imported automobiles, as specified in the tariff measure passed by the House of Representatives and now before the Senate. Their message: That the automotive industry would be well satisfied with a 10% duty. But countervailing duties* should be maintained and the 25% duty should remain on trucks, buses...
...leggers among the Osage Indians, headed the procession that marched upon the Harris farm. With him were three "friends," not regular agents but deputized for this raid. They fingered their gun triggers menacingly. Farmer Harris, mistaking them for bandits, lifted his shotgun down from behind the stove, prepared to defend his home. One of the unofficial raiders was snooping under a chicken coop for a still when he caught sight of Harris and Lowery. He pulled the trigger on his revolver. Harris dropped. Lowery started to run. Shots followed him, brought him to the ground. Both men were dead...