Word: fended
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...opera, which has always had to fend for itself, sat up and took notice last week when San Francisco earmarked $25,000 for the San Francisco Opera Company from the city budget. (The San Francisco Symphony has had city aid for seven years...
...Fisher brothers, Bill and Jack, packed much of the wallop in the Freshman defense, combining in something like an old family fend against brother Bob, playing tackle for the Harlow scrubs...
...solitary Japanese boy on the U.S. West Coast, to serve as houseboy, to hoe fields of Japanese truck gardeners, to wait on table, to be a hotel busboy, gave him a hard core under the candid and mannerly exterior; certainly it taught him that there was only himself to fend for himself...
...when New Deal schemes for public power were aborning, Bond & Share sent McKee to Oregon to run Portland Gas, Northwestern Electric (SEC later made him drop this) and Pacific Power & Light. His assignment: to recapture lost earnings, fend off public power...
...ships can anchor close inshore; and it is near Manila. But from the beachhead the roads pass through slits in the mountains, cross deep defiles over bridges that could be destroyed. And, since it is closer to the capital, a heavy defending force could quickly be moved south to fend off attack at the beach itself...