Word: defented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world Disarmament Conference, lose faith in the good will of the nations assembled. For years Uncle Arthur has maintained that universal reduction of arms was within a reasonable stretch of the hand and would undoubtedly be reached by Monday, at the latest on Tuesday. And after each successive defent of his proposals and everybody else's proposals, he would bob up again with encouraging plans for new round-table meetings, finding the old failures, (when he admitted them) simply "incomprehensible," and letting it go at that. But now he has spoken out loud and bold to the British Commons, telling...
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