Word: fend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Western experts speculate that Husák may have agreed to the trials of lower-ranking liberals in order to fend off demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
...between the belligerent P.F.L.P. and the Israelis, who have retaliated against fedayeen attacks and skyjacks with air and armor strikes at their bases inside Lebanon. The principal loser, if the confrontation escalates, will be Lebanon, which is too fragmented politically to discipline the guerrillas and too weak militarily to fend off the Israelis...
...girl into leaving because she's "not what Don needs." Neither, most emphatically, is Mom, who nevertheless turns out to be a real heroine. Realizing after all her conniving that it is time her boy became a man, she departs in a cloud of humility, leaving Don to fend for himself and perhaps convince his paramour to return...
...torrid heat waves began to scorch the African continent," killing off the trees and drying up the food supply. At the time, things were even tougher for the female than for the male: "She had a greedy and hectoring mate," she lacked his "fighting canines" (teeth, not dogs) to fend off enemies, "she was hampered by a clinging infant," and when chased by a carnivorous cat, she "found there was no tree she could run up to escape." She "loathed getting her feet wet," but "when your homeland's turning into an inferno, the seaside...
Purse-size electric cattle prods. Lipstick cases that are really tear-gas guns. Canes that double as daggers. As muggers across the nation are discovering, these are the latest additions to a growing James Bond arsenal of protective devices used by city dwellers to fend off would-be assailants...