Word: defend
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...more than 70 chapters and claims a membership of more than 80,000. One of its officials testified before the U.S. Senate three years ago that American contributions do "not necessarily" go for guns but "might allow [Ulster Catholics] to purchase firearms wherever they might get them to defend the community [and] their families...
There are countless tales, mostly mythical, of dogs risking their lives to defend their owners or else, when the owner dies, expiring of a broken heart. In fact, dogs are loving creatures and will do almost anything for a providing owner. It was, after all, Cerberus who guarded the gates of Hades. Mastiffs brought back from England by Julius Caesar became canine mercenaries, as famed in their day as the K-9 Corps of World War II. There are the tales, too, of faithful cats that travel thousands of miles to find their vanished owner, though thousands more prefer...
WALTER HEITMAN, Chile's ambassador to the United States, is speaking this afternoon to the Harvard Club's World Affairs Council. Heitman's main task as ambassador has been to defend the military junta that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically chosen Popular Unity government last year. Heitman has thrown himself into his task with an enthusiasm so exaggerated it's almost comic, an enthusiasm he demonstrated in a letter to The New York Times last week. In the letter, the former admiral announced that a charge by a member of an international jurists' commission that the junta was sending Popular...
Lenny was eager to fight in court, to perform his routines for the judges and defend them, but he found courtrooms and lawyers unsympathetic. What started out as a romantic crusade for freedom of speech soon became an ordeal that drained Lenny emotionally and financially...
...TIME cover stories on the Middle East. "The atmosphere here now," he recalls, "is much like it was back in November 1947. In those days, the Jews were worried about the state's survival, just as they are now. But then they had less with which to defend themselves." As for TIME'S full reportage on the Palestinians, says Levin, "Israelis enjoy the give and take of a good argument. Many of them have told me that they are glad to read the other side of the story...