Word: foes
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When their fellow Europeans left them in peace, the people of Flanders, Celtic in origin, were kept busy fending off the onslaughts of a still more implacable foe-the grey, pounding rollers of the North Sea, which time and again broke over Flanders' beaches to flood the low-lying flatlands behind. From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee. Their land was Vlandria, land of the refugees...
...Germany, then a republic, joined in collective guarantees of its Versailles Treaty borders with France and Belgium. Britain undertook to fight Germany if Germany attacked either France or Belgium, and to fight France or Belgium if either attacked Germany-thus putting its friends on a level with their former foe...
Citation: "Tolerant observer of human foibles, implacable foe of all forms of tyranny, lover of nature and friend of furred and feathered life, a modern Thoreau at home in both Brooklins...
Last week readers of Rome's conservative Giornale d'ltalia were treated to a front-page debate between Don Luigi, venerable foe of statism and apostle of enlightened individualism (TIME. March 8), and Mayor La Pira, a man who insists that a man's job is as much a piece of property as a man's land, that it is the state's duty to help every citizen have "a job, a house and music...
Group No. 1. incorporated last week as Pacific Northwest Power Co., is led by Washington Water Power's President Kinsey Robinson, longtime foe of public power (TIME, March 30, 1953). Its five private-company members*; propose to spend $500 million on two big dams and power plants with a capacity of 533,000 kw. on the Clearwater River in northwestern Idaho. In line with the Administration's proposal that such big projects should get the help of the Federal Government when needed, the companies will ask the U.S. to pay such costs as highway construction and flood control...