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Word: fends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas and Thoman renew their backstroke fend at 2:30 p.m. in the 100-yard eliminations. Steinhart is a strong favorite for third, along with Navy's Boyd Johnson...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Yale Continues to Dominate Eastern Swimming Tourney | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

...with what. Gray admits that rearming the West is going to make the financing of his aid programs just that much harder; he also notes that building up undeveloped areas will be a tough and expensive hob in itself. Gray also believes that Europe is not yet ready to fend for itself; there is a lot of evidence to indicate that even this moderate position may be too optimistic. European recovery has been good but not spectacular, and there is still much to be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gray Prospect | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

Cold Facts. Kepner needs more soldiers, more planes, more guns and more radar to fend off any "one-shot deal." That, like everything else in Alaska, is more difficult than it sounds. The Pentagon can't send more people until there is more housing. Already at lonely Eielson, troops are living in portable Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, 1,100 men are crammed into a new 500-man barracks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid hovels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long had to beg Congress for its Alaskan housing money. Now costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKGROUND FOR WAR: Alaska: Airman's Theater | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke in Sweden. The Swedish Red Cross, accompanying Allied liberation troops, had found her among a pile of corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Aristocrats | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...king, so he can pass under the noses of the U.S. public. But even for Slade the smell is too strong. He betrays the king in the interests of dear old democracy, but not before he has downed gallons of the royal bourbon, and has had to fend off ardent passes from the royal mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Is No Importance | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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