Word: defends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...teeth of neutrals chattered, bitter cold hit the continent. Icy winds from the steppes blew across the Balkans, sending the temperature to -30°. In The Netherlands the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice. On Belgium's eastern plateau, where the twelve modern sunken fortresses of Liege guard the route the Germans once took, caked snow crunched under the boots of marching troops. Ice crept out from the shores of the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia, where Russian planes bombed Sweden's Kallaks...
Britain, which will have to defend France's northern flank if the Germans invade Belgium, canceled Army leaves. Paris, always buzzing with rumors of wars, set Jan. 20 as the date of attack-a relatively reassuring sign that nothing would happen...
Knowing that the other Balkans will not care to help Rumania defend herself from Russia, Carol had good cause to consult Prince Paul for help. Though little news of it leaked, his Government was just as frantically reinforcing its frontiers as the Belgians and the Dutch. Thousands of reservists called to the colors completely overtaxed the capacity of the Rumanian railroad system. Not only was there no standing room in railway cars, men clung on the outside steps in below-zero weather. Some of them grew numb and were found in the morning dead along the right...
...quarrel with the concept of the Communist Party that it is the responsibility of the Party to defend the foreign policy of the Soviet Union regardless of what it does. I have also very grave doubts about the policy of the Soviet Union itself. I think its present action is a betrayal of the World Revolution...
...family as it is to the other. To those Germans who have not yet been completely hypnotized by Dr. Goebbels this must come like the handwriting on the wall. Germany went into this war under two false assumptions: 1) that the western democracies are too decadent and spiritless to defend themselves no matter what humiliations and demands will be put to them; and 2) that the British Empire is already in a greatly advanced stage of disintegration and ready to fall apart with the first real demand made upon its unity...