Word: fending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more and better information for the U.S. people, but the Government's failure to report the bombing of Japan makes good sense. There is every reason to believe that the Japs have been guessing long and hard where the raid came from-and how to fend off another. As long as they are kept guessing, silence pays...
...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...
...second-hand steel oil drums. After the eastern ports were lost, the oil moved down the Burma Road, under constant bombardment. The last consignments shoved off from Rangoon under a shower of bombs, shortly before the advancing Japanese captured the city in March- leaving the U.S. hereafter to fend for tung itself...
...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...