Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim, just before his death, told the police that the prisoner had approached him with an ice pick and stabbed him without justification. The defendant, however, said the victim had come at him first with a knife. It was only to defend, himself, the prisoner insited, that he picked up an ice pick from behind...
...unsaintly a crew as U.S. labor has to offer. They were there to elect-or rather, ratify -a president. The man they wanted was a man they loved: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, pal of gangsters, target of national scorn and innumerable investigations, soon to appear in New York to defend himself on charges of wiretapping and perjury...
...living in a house and I know I built it. I work in a workshop which was constructed by me. I speak a language which I developed. And I know I shape my life according to my desires by my own ability. I feel I am safe. I can defend myself. I am not afraid. This is the greatest happiness a man can feel-that he could be a partner with the Lord in creation. This is the real happiness of man-creative life, conquest of nature, and a great purpose...
...other hand, the laggers (foreign traders) had delayed buying sterling to pay their bills, hoping to settle with a cheaper pound. The unexpected drain on sterling might run as high as $1 billion unless the British convince the world that they have the determination and resources to defend the pound...
...cogent reason was a stronger British trade surplus than expected, equivalent to $600 million in the year ended June 30, against previous official predictions of $350 million. Even at the risk of unemployment from the tightening of money by the Bank of England fortnight ago, said Thorneycroft, Britain will defend the proud pound. To add to her resources, she will draw down a $500 million credit from the U.S. Export-Import Bank, can also call on her $738.5 million stand-by credit from the Monetary Fund...