Word: fended
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...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...
...Army would admit only the obvious - that he somehow got a change of clothing and faked identification papers. When traveling he played deaf-mute or pretended to be asleep to fend off the curious. The rest of Cadet Wissenback's story will have to wait: other U.S. flyers may be wandering in Europe today, using the same methods...
...Pros. The "chosen instrument" minority believes that if U.S. airlines compete against one another in the international air, they will not have the economic strength to fend off the Government-backed air monopolies of Britain, France, Russia and other nations. For if U.S. competitors duplicate facilities and subdivide the available traffic, their profits will be so small that aggressive competition will either 1) drive them out of business or 2) force them back in the slow death of Government subsidies. Their program, instead, would be to organize a Federally-regulated combination (the "instrument"), in which each interested U.S. line could...