Word: fends
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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...
...heart is four times the size of his brain, and this is probably why the French are able to produce a movie like "Generals Without Buttons," the current attraction at the Fine Arts. For it is hard to imagine Hollywood giving any attention to a story about a fend between two villages, one of which wanted rain for its cabbages, and the other of which wanted sun for its grape vines...
When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going...