Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They declare that they are firmly resolved to use all the means which are in their power to obtain the immediate realization of their claims, and are resolved to defend with an inflexible energy their rights, their liberties and their traditions...
...lawyer in West Virginia, he had volunteered to defend miners arrested during strike troubles...
...Indian warfare nor even a rodeo, but U. S. poloists preparing to defend the International Challenge Cup* against an English invasion next month. Crowds along the sideboards at Westbury and Port Washington trained their glasses. The Defense Committee of the U. S. Polo Association (H. P. Whitney, R. E. Strawbridge Sr., L. E. Stoddard, D. Milburn) scrutinized closely the aspirants for the "Big Four" as they beat the willowwood balls about in practice matches three times a week...
Many are the sneers cast at the poor journalis. Of all the literary men his work is generally regarded as the lowest, the cheapest, the least valuable. It remained for a newspaper man to defend the newspaper fraternity, at least as compared with its magazine cousins. Laurence Stallings of The New York World had something to say on the subject in a recent article...
Arriving with a cold and a headache in the gay Capital of France, which received him most ungaily, he proceeded to defend his confrère. The two Premiers had a heart-to-heart talk. After various conferences, Mr. MacDonald was seen with a wan smile, for his exertions on behalf of Edouard had caused him excessive fatigue. He declared that neither he nor the French Premier was a magician-"we cannot wave a wand and accomplish miracles." But he declared that they were both, substantially, in agreement...