Word: defend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of "The Natural Superiority of Ivy League Men" in the current issue of Holiday will defend his views against Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, in a Law School Forum program Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...usually shown this year. McIntosh always gets many shots at outside right, and in practice this week, Coach Bruce Munro has found what may be the solution to the team's scoring problem, moving his insides away from the front of the goal, thus forcing the goalie to defend against shots from more angles...
When the State Department made public the Yalta record (TIME, March 28), Senate Democrats hastened to defend Franklin D. Roosevelt's secret concessions to the U.S.S.R. by blaming his military advisers-notably General Douglas MacArthur. The fact that U.S. strategists urged Soviet entry into the Pacific war was taken to justify the Roosevelt deal made at Yalta. Senator Herbert Lehman attacked MacArthur, directly on the ground that he "urgently recommended that Soviet Russia be involved in the war against Japan." The two sides of the argument were talking about different questions: 1) Was it desirable that Russia enter...
...royal palace, occupied all government offices and invited him to take over. Papagos brusquely disowned them. The same year he formed his Greek Rally party, began fighting the democratic way ("De Gaulle wants to change the French constitution with more power for the executive. My purpose is to defend our constitution against all trespassers"). In the 1952 election the Greek Rally swept the polls. After having had 26 governments in six years, Greece at last had a stable administration. It remained substantially so until Papagos fell ill last January and control slipped slowly from his fingers...
...beans deal; instead, a new food scandal broke. Guatemala's established importers of flour charged that Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation hands the Communists all the arguments...