Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ascribed one of two ungenerous motives. Either he is convinced the budget should be cut but is himself unwilling to take the steps, which are bound to offend someone, or he believes that it is the safest minimum expenditure for the welfare of the country, but refuses to defend it strongly in the face of public protest led by his own Secretary of the Treasury...
...Court should agree with the psychiatrist's findings, Steyskal will then be committed to a mental hospital until he is able to defend himself or until the indictment against him is dismissed...
...September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary now, but still hopeful, the U.S. made a counterbid for Nasser's favor, offered to help build the $1.3 billion high dam on the upper Nile at Aswan...
...expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although Polikoff has scheduled more American than foreign works, this week he is offering a selection of contemporary music from Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Impresario Polikoff also invites the composers being played to come and defend their music in open forum. Among those who have accepted so far this season: Roger Sessions, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Ruggles...
From the moment the 17-year-old New York schoolgirl glided out to defend her world's figure-skating title last week, any splay-ankled tyro could plainly see that pert Carol Heiss was a solid bet to keep the championship in the U.S. In addition, the flashiest male who showed up for the meet at the posh Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs was another American. Dave Jenkins, 20, the acrobatic kid brother of Hayes Alan Jenkins, now turned pro, who had won the title four years running...