Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland Chamber of Commerce took a full-page advertisement in the newspapers to tell Cleveland citizens: "We are called upon to defend our way of life against barbarians. . . . Day by day we accumulate strength for our purpose. . . . Here in Cleveland let us work together seriously and unselfishly so that we may survive in peace and liberty...
...they had been allowed to resign their Air Corps posts, enlist in the Chinese Air Force on the understanding that their U.S. Army seniorities would not be affected. Another somewhat whimsical technical understanding is that they will not "take the offensive" against the Japanese Air Force, but will merely defend the Road...
...your generation that will determine, not in middle life but tomorrow, next year, or at the latest within a few brief years, whether ... the faults you visualize in democracy, and the ruthlessness you ignore in totalitarianism shall paralyze your will to defend the one and to defeat the other...
...Vichy French forces who will defend Syria number about 45,000, no more than a third of whom are white. They are said to be short of equipment, oil (since the British took Mosul) and morale. The invading British began to test this alleged morale shortage by first giving towns and garrisons a chance to surrender, turning the heat on if they would...
...Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key city. He then gave up his comfortable job in Chungking as Chief of the Army's Political Training Department and went to the front, publicly vowing not to return until he had retaken Ichang...