Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the Communist Party and as such Dictator of Russia. It was announced that the prisoners had all chosen not to be defended by Soviet lawyers but to defend themselves...
...July 27 issue of your valued publication there appeared a double-page advertisement of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, in which the spirit of Voltaire is portrayed as speaking through a village grocer in defense of liberty of expression: "I wholly disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death, your right...
...under Government orders two years ago suppressed the Asturian miners' own attempt at a Marxian uprising, and they were out to get Colonel Aranda even though in so doing they imperiled the lives of their own families in the city he was defending. With the siege at its hottest, the Colonel abandoned the usual tactic of trying to defend a central stronghold, distributed the forces of the Revolution in various parts of the city and dared the Asturian miners to come on. On came the miners, chiefly armed with homemade dynamite bombs. On cheap cigars clenched in their teeth...
...withdraw many of his troops from the Guadarrama front to tackle a dangerous situation in his rear. San Sebastian and Bilbao were still in Loyalist hands. With hostilities ceasing in the Barcelona region, Loyalists might be able to launch an attack at his rear. Out of the ground to defend these Basque cities for the Loyalists poured the Communist miners of Oviedo, hurling homemade bombs of dynamite, slashing with knives. General Mola's attack was beaten...
...which they received eight dollars apiece at British headquarters at Niagara. The farmers who made up the U. S. militia hurried home after each victory or defeat, since they had to get on with the crops between battles. Now & then detachments of the regular Continental Army marched in to defend the frontier, seemed always to arrive when they were not needed, to leave just before they were. After six years of intermittent hostilities, the 2,500 men on the militia rolls of the Mohawk Valley had been reduced to less than 800, although only two major battles had been fought...