Word: fends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather than Benson. Near Billings, I heard a recorded anti-G.O.P. speech by Senator Jim Murray in use as a radio commercial by a retail outlet as a sales pitch to farmers to buy portable grain-storage bins. The implication: the new Administration is now forcing farmers to fend for themselves. In Hettinger, N. Dak. and Selby, S. Dak., where rust was threatening the wheat crop gripes followed the old Non-Partisan League line, and were directed like buckshot against the banks and Eastern capitalists around...
...goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...
...weather is holding, and General Raoul Salan has airlifted a formidable last-minute defense force into Luang Prabang. While they dig in for a long siege, patrols fend off the Communist vanguard...
Because her department is newest in the Cabinet, Secretary Hobby must walk at the end of all official Cabinet processions, yet her Department of Health, Education and Welfare is bigger in budget terms ($1.7 billion in fiscal 1953) than all other Cabinet departments, save Defense and Treasury. She must fend off more pressure groups and lobbies than any ten Senate committees; she must woo a shy but fascinated Congress (already she has made nine trips to Capitol Hill). Yet, amid the bewildering mass of unrelated facts, figures and projects. Oveta Hobby was quick to discover a theme of organic unity...
...seemingly dead political fend which split University Democrats last fall revived this week as the Young Democratic Club sought to open a suit to regain club funds from former treasurer, James C. Curry...