Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finance company, with added shades of Uriah Heep. In the case of the present business manager, this picture is not accurate and less than fair. For in a postwar confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation, meetings at which all outsiders, from Dean to doorman, are barred. Durant must accept...
...order to ... rid themselves of the dissenters to their fraudulent theory of government, they have murdered millions of their own people. . . . When Stalin therefore proclaims to the Russian people that they must defend themselves against their natural enemies, the democracies, of which we form a large part, he is no imbecile. The imbeciles are all on our side of the fence. What Stalin fears is ... that the Russian people will learn the truth about Communism and the Stalin regime: that they have the lowest standard of living of any people in the world and the least freedom...
...speech to his countrymen. Said he: "In the world of affairs we irretrievably subscribe to the principles enunciated by the great leaders of the American revolution, to the cause and program being led today by the U.S. The system of free but guided enterprise is our system. We will defend it against the ideological onslaughts . . . of anti-democratic creeds. The proponents of these views will be protected in their right to hold and openly advocate them. They will not be protected in subversive schemes to destroy the structure of the nation...
Nobody blamed Joe Louis. It takes two to make a fight. Harlem, which had not seen its Joe defend his crown since 1941, began an all-night jamboree with a parade and ended it with two stabbings, three shootings. (The New York Sun headlined...
Fact and Legend. Jay Monaghan, now state historian of Illinois but a former Colorado rancher himself (in partnership with Historian Lloyd Lewis), says that Tom's arrest gave Cheyenne and Denver cattle barons a bad turn. They retained a batch of lawyers to defend him, appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, and when all else failed, sent him off to the Boulder Cemetery in a high-priced white-satin-and-silver coffin. Author Monaghan knows the Tom Horn country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting...