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...free of snags, played a large part in introducing the democratic way to Europe, for from earliest times they made each Flemish peasant dependent on his neighbor. In the same way, the constant need to keep his dikes repaired against the attacks of the sea, and to fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow, the burghers of Saint-Omer forced their feudal overlords to recognize the rights...
...vote of 81-6. the Senate ratified the Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of Korea. Chief provision: each nation agrees to help the other fend off an external aggression, but only "in accordance with its constitutional processes." The U.S. is not obliged under the treaty t01) support an independent South Korean military liberation of North Korea, 2) defend South Korea against internal subversion, or 3) keep troops in South Korea, though the right to do so is assured...
...seen him fend off oncoming traffic along Mount Auburn can forget the picture of a dignified gentleman extending his umbrella like a rapier, challenging the automobile to ducl. The season is unimportant; Nock carries his umbrella on the clearest...
...rather than Benson. Near Billings, I heard a recorded anti-G.O.P. speech by Senator Jim Murray in use as a radio commercial by a retail outlet as a sales pitch to farmers to buy portable grain-storage bins. The implication: the new Administration is now forcing farmers to fend for themselves. In Hettinger, N. Dak. and Selby, S. Dak., where rust was threatening the wheat crop gripes followed the old Non-Partisan League line, and were directed like buckshot against the banks and Eastern capitalists around...
...goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...