Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh was back from Moscow, where his gentle dickering had yielded no assurances of Russian departure. The March 2 deadline in the Anglo-Russian-Iranian treaty continued to be honored in the breach. Premier Gavam could not defend his country or the world's peace. He waited uneasily for this week's showdown meeting of UNO's Security Council in New York...
Throughout the Empire, the speech did emphasize that Britain is no longer able to defend her own interests with her own military strength. The pressures are too many; the resources too few. With or without an alliance, Great Britain and the Dominions were tied to the U.S. security system. But the Empire was another matter; and it was the Empire, rather than England or the Dominions, that bore most of the pressure...
...rnberg opened its case last week, the Russian judges, aloof as statues, sat at the far end of the tribunal's bench. In their hard eyes, the fate of the accused was settled. But the 22 defense lawyers would fight hard, even though they had to defend the indefensible...
When he resigned from the faculty in 1938, in poor health, the Campus editorialized: "We Won't Let Him." In 1940 he emerged from retirement to defend Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who was first appointed to C.C.N.Y., then dismissed (on grounds that he was not of "moral character"). Cohen's essay on this "scandalous denial of justice" reflects both his intense enthusiasms and his considerable legal abilities. Though a layman, he has influenced Frankfurter and many another jurist. In his writings, he is as unsparing of friends like Holmes, Brandeis and Einstein as he is of his enemies...
...Brewster Kopp '47 and Robin F. Worthington '47 will defend the negative position for Harvard in tonight's debate. Among the Judges will be Walter J. Cunningham, instructor in Physics and senior tutor of Adams Houses, and Kurt W. Lessen, proctor in Lowell House...