Word: defend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defeats, the danger, the urgency of the hour had all hit home. The nation was astir. The old played-out words-Defense Program; A Small Army for Defense; Defend America by Aiding the Allies-now sounded like mumblings in a dream. The dope of complacency had worn off. The country began to look at its heritage and its destiny with better understanding; a people that had almost cravenly debated "neutrality" now looked forward to the fight...
...today he still favors business as usual, though the lists of American soldiers who have died as a result of this disastrous policy are growing. Such inertia and complacency in so powerful a man can only be interpreted as a breach of public faith to a nation fighting to defend itself...
...rejected the idea of keeping the U.S. forces home to defend the U.S., pointing out that then no aid could be sent to China; the southwest Pacific would fall to the Japanese, who would then be able to launch large-scale attacks on the U.S. and Alaska; that Turkey, the Suez Canal, North and West Africa would fall to the Nazis; that the British and Russian efforts would be crippled. Such "foolish advice," he said, would result in a "turtle policy": "We prefer to retain the eagle as it is-flying high and striking hard...
...whether he would be able to keep his leftward weight in the Government, or would tend to be absorbed by the Conservative majority. Many Britons bet on Sir Stafford. Some were wary, like the Evening Standard, which commented: "[Churchill] has briefed the best lawyer in the country to defend his Government...
...strongly interested in an Axis victory. "To say that we cannot survive in a totalitarian world does not make sense," was the keynote of the full page advertisements which last May in the Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian mocked the ability of the British to defend the status-quo against the Have-Nots, and suggested that "the logic of the situation for France at present may soon appear to the British people to be the logic of the situation for them...