Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ireland, sounded an ominous note when he declared, in a speech, that, if the decision of the Boundary Commission were unacceptable to the Ulster Parliament and no other honorable solution could be found, he would resign, place himself at the head of the people as their chosen leader to defend any territory which the Boundary Commission might wish to filch from them...
...with 3 runs. In the eighth, Manager Bucky Harris, with two of his subordinates on bases, scored both by whanging another crucial hit over third base. Score tied; Series tied; everyone frantic. Pitcher Marberry having been taken out and also pitchers Ogden and Mogridge, there was none left to defend Washington but "Good Old Walter." Forth he came, bravely he pitched. Tenth inning: no runs. Eleventh inning, scoreless. Twelfth inning a liner from Muddy Ruel's bat screamed into left field. Muddy jubilated on second base. Then Walter Johnson reached first on an error. Whack! McNeely...
...Whitbeck '27, will not be able to defend his title of Union champion, won last year. An infection has confined him in the Massachusetts, General Hospital...
...become implicated in a religious war. She had definite obligations to the rulers of Iraq and Kerak under man-dates given her by the League of Nations. Husein was independent-so independent in fact that he had hesitated overlong to sign a treaty with his ally, Britain. He must defend himself as best he could...
...that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak before a meeting of the townsfolk to defend the editorials which had been dashed from Joe's fiery pen. He said quite frankly that he couldn't make a speech, and we thought ourselves that perhaps it might be just as well if he didn't. But the arrival of his two hundred pound father from Kentucky swung...