Word: fending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birds such as chickens. The fertilized egg is germfree on the inside, and its shell can easily be sterilized in a germicidal bath. The "tank" in which the birds are to live can be heated to serve as an in cubator; when the chicks hatch, they can feed and fend for themselves at once. The Japanese quail is even better than the chicken because the birds begin to lay when about seven weeks old (as against seven months for chickens...
...presenting to the States-General his radical Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. But the Revolution quickly became too violent and ugly for his aristocratic reformer's views, and La Fayette was forced to flee France, leaving Adrienne and their three children behind to fend for themselves...
Main purpose of all four dams is to fend off the sea and its damaging flood tides. But with the salt water blocked off, the estuaries will slowly fill up with fresh water from the rivers. By means of five smaller dams farther inland, the sweet water can be sluiced northward into the Rotterdam Waterway. The waterway provides ocean-going vessels with access to The Netherlands' greatest port, but, in the process, also allows salt water to pass far inland, damaging surrounding farmlands. In effect, the five smaller dams of the Delta Plan will be used to hose...
...grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend for itself in the jungle...
...doctrine that infantrymen should ride straight into combat, is an armored personnel carrier (powered by a British engine, and using Swiss and French components) that can charge through machine-gun fire at 30 miles an hour-and has a metal roof that can be rolled up to fend off atomic fallout...