Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice the Persians invaded Greece with overwhelming armies & navies, but they had levies from more than 50 slave nations, and the little Greek city-states, fighting for their own hearths and way of life, threw them into the sea. The Carthaginians hired mercenaries to defend their city, and when these hirelings revolted, Carthage was stabbed in the back and left to the mercy of the Romans. And Rome herself fell when the famed Roman legions were replaced by Germanic soldiers...
...lunching in their headquarters at the newly rebuilt Hotel Astor, across the street from the presidential palace, when they heard the news of the assault on Gaitán. They expected trouble and, within 30 minutes, got it. The Army took over their hotel as a strong point to defend the palace, and Dozier spent his first beleaguered night trying to sleep while two soldiers banged away at snipers from his bedroom window...
...whole question of "security," loyalty checks and Government service. According to the research center's report, most of them agree that some sort of "security clearance procedures" are necessary. But they believe that a scientist accused of disloyalty or "un-Americanism" should be given an opportunity to defend himself...
...treatment that Dr. Condon got from the Thomas Committee made nearly all atomic scientists hopping mad. They objected particularly to the Committee's habit of "trying" cases in the newspapers without giving the victim a chance to defend himself. Many wrote long, violent replies to the questionnaire, predicting that such irresponsible attacks would cause the Government to lose its' best scientific talent. Seventy-five percent of the scientists questioned stated that the Condon affair had made them more reluctant to go into Government service. It has made 12% of them "decide to decline any such offer...
...used to stand up for parents. He championed them against the experts, said that it was unfair to blame the mother or father every time something went wrong with the child. Last week he told the American Ortho-psychiatric* Association in Manhattan about no parents whom he could not defend. He had examined their offspring at the children's psychiatric clinic which he heads at Johns Hopkins...