Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the decision got out, Dutch Catholic publications unanimously rose to defend the sculptor's exaggeration, argued that it suggested a frail mortal burdened and glorified by his heavenly mission. "Isn't wonder worth more than admiration?" wrote one commentator. This week the sculptor planned to meet with church authorities to urge them to change the commission's verdict. "This is Paul," Vlasblom maintained, "the man directly in the grip of God." But the commission seemed adamant and the huge clay statue, still uncast in concrete, began to deteriorate in its wrapping of old rags and oilcloth...
...director of Hunter College's Medical Office yesterday attacked the use of "Morals and Medicine" in Philosophy 3, asserting that the book "perverts the basic moral principles of medicine," and has challenged the author, the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, to defend his work in an open debate...
Fordrung said that "in the interest of truth, I should be happy to meet any member of your academic family who would wish to defend the statements contained in the volume." He added that he would most like to debate the author himself, and that he would come to Cambridge from New York...
...Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative. "We're dog tired," said his pretty young (28) wife, leaning against her husband's broad shoulder. For six weeks six-footer Karamanlis had tramped and traveled from snow-choked passes in Macedonia to sun-washed villages in the Peloponnesus to defend his pro-Western policy against the coalition formed against him by three disgruntled ex-Premiers in league with the remnant of the outlawed Communist Party. "I stand alone. I am one against all," he proclaimed defiantly...
Last Thursday's Forum debate on United States recognition of China demonstrated the need for more speakers to defend the present administration's policies, Korn claimed. The Young Republicans so far have refused to join the other nine member clubs, of the Forum...