Word: fended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government tried to fend off charges of negligence and complaisance by blaming the affair on 1) Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party; 2) fascist members of the National Armed Forces, led by agents of General Wladyslaw Anders, wartime commander of Polish forces in Italy...
...newcomer to the plywood and lumber industry. He has been in & out of it ever since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
...still it had to improvise a defense. Secretary Forrestal conferred time & again, sometimes until far into the night, with the top brass in his department-Admirals King and Edwards, Home and Mitscher-and was still working feverishly at week's end to perfect a line which would fend off the Army without offending the public...
...fend off an assault on its inner fortress, Japan has an army probably as strong as it was on Dec. 7, 1941. But its navy has been reduced to impotence. And last week, U.S. Army and Navy airmen agreed that Japan's air force has been effectively defeated...
What would the beast do now? Hole up in the Siegfried line and try to live a few days longer? Still try to fend off the powerful Russian assaults on the east and in the Balkans ? Live on after these bastions had fallen, while boys and old men, now under training in the Reich, died to postpone the day of doom...