Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
...independence and horror of any foreign domination had been exploited by Perlinger's ultranationalists, who professed to regard anything but positive antagonism toward another power as a sign of weakness. If Strong Juan Perón really intends to sweeten U.S. Argentine relations, he will have to contend with this attitude...
Some critics contend that the Medal of Honor was sometimes awarded early in the war for less than the prescribed "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty." But there were no critics of last week's awards of Medals of Honor (Nos. 86, 87, and 88) to three country boys...
...battles now being fought over Germany are aimed to destroy Nazi fighter plane strength and production. . . . [That] is sought so that when Allied ground and air forces seek to force a further foothold on continental Europe they will have to contend ultimately with the German ground force, not with the German ground and air forces...
...that they do remarkably well. A girl reporter at the Interior Department was first to dig out the "Big Inch" faulty-pipe story. The Associated Press's young Flora Lewis was 24 hours ahead on the State Department's embargo of oil shipments to Spain. The girls contend that the traditional greeting of officials at press conferences -"Good morning, gentlemen"-is no longer fit for so many feminine ears...