Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...State Department now expects the British, with India and Australia in tow, to recognize the Chinese Communists before year's end. The British suggested that they would consider withholding recognition only if the U.S. promised to help them defend Hong Kong against a possible Communist attack; the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have come out flatly against such a U.S. commitment...
...Debate Council will visit M.I.T. at 8 p.m. tonight to argue the question: "Resolved, That Communists should be barred from teaching positions in colleges." Harvard will defend the negative...
Some Indonesian editorial snipers blamed the U.S. for everything. Cried the newspaper Nasional: "We demand an integral and undivided independence. But what do we see today? [New Guinea] was pawned for one year . . . America is going to defend itself against Communism, and Indonesia is on its way to be made the place for America's self-defense...
Lord Kemsley's unsexy, unsensational Sunday Times (circ. 521,000) rushed to defend its more wayward and widely read sisters: "Is it not time that those who . . . make such attacks should . . . particularize the journals which they wish to pillory?" It was true, as the Sunday Times said, that not all the Sundays were devoted to rape, robbery and remorse; two (the Sunday Times itself and the Observer) were sober news and feature weeklies, and several others were only mildly sensational. But some of the scandalmongering and crime stories of the biggest British Sundays made even U.S. tabloids seem...