Word: fending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
When Abijah got a Call to do missionary work in Scotland the three wives had to fend for themselves. They made glue...
...Correspondents asked Mr. Roosevelt whether he had abandoned the heralded, ambitious U. S. plan for a Latin-American trade cartel, to fend off Nazi-Fascist penetration. The President carefully replied that only the objective had not been discarded; instead of an inclusive (some said unpractical) arrangement with all Latin America, the U. S. would depend on loans and separate trade negotiation with each country to raise Hemisphere fences against Hitler...
...fend mine-laying planes away from the Thames estuary, the British moved their balloon barrage to sea. This they did by swinging motor trucks, from which the balloons are flown on long cables, aboard lighters which then were anchored offshore...