Word: defend
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...them on relief, and many of them with nothing better to do than ride around in broken down jalopies to the danger of themselves and everyone on the road. But if Hitler wins this war there won't be time to ask them whether they wish to defend our way of life, and before they have a chance to wake up their days of freedom will be gone forever...
...hysterical as the rest of the mob. Someone-and why not TIME? -should point out that we are neither England nor Norway, that even if the Atlantic has been flown over it is still a barrier to conquest, that Sims said he would be happy to defend our shores with a fleet half the size of any attacker, that every single expert knows Japan neither can nor will attack...
...benefits of personal freedom that the Germans have put into their youth by teaching them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense -for what good will it do to defend Britain to save our own hides and have our own youth insensitive to those precious rights which our ancestors for a thousand years have bought with their blood and treasure...
...threaten Britain's hold on the southern entrance to the Red Sea and the route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia. Chief gain for Italy in driving Britain from Somaliland would...
...only symbolized, they constituted, the Britain which dominated world trade. They built and supported the British Fleet, protected the empire. London is where warlike Winston Churchill lives and leads the British people. But Birmingham is where tradesman-like Neville Chamberlain was born and bred to honor, multiply and defend the pound sterling...