Word: defend
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That system--any system which can't defend itself without repressive violence on the scale used by the Marines and other armed services in Indochina--ought to be abolished. The organizations that applied the violence--the present U.S. government and its military agents as presently constituted--ought to be the first to go. No one should help them implement their aims, and no one should respond to the advertisement on page...
...Crimson staff--disagree with this decision. We think that advertisements for organizations with purposes plausibly described as genocidal can reasonably be called offensive. A newspaper ought not to sell its space to people using it, not for rational or political persuasion, but to strengthen, without attempting to defend, an indefensible bulwark of reaction. We hope the Marines don't advertise here again...
...chose to quit my job as a social worker and stay at home. I am not "forced to sublimate my success drive." I am not especially "sensitive about my stay-at-home status." I am tired of having to explain and defend my position to people whose closed minds can't tolerate change...
KENNETH W. PARKINSON, 46. A Washington attorney specializing in personal injury insurance cases, Parkinson was untouched by Watergate until the Nixon committee hired him to defend itself against a civil suit filed by the Democratic National Committee because of the wiretapping-burglary. Once a law clerk in the same Washington district court in which he is now indicted, he is charged with conspiracy...
While on the rise he inevitably bumped into another Texas poor boy making good-Lyndon Johnson. Twice he came to L.B.J.'s rescue. In 1948 he helped defend Johnson against charges of fraud in a Senate primary election that L.B.J. won by a contested 87 votes. In 1960 Jaworski was L.B.J.'s attorney in suits that sought to prevent him from running simultaneously for Vice President and for Senator. When L.B.J. was President, he wanted to appoint Jaworski Attorney General. But sensitive to charges of cronyism, the President reluctantly named Ramsey Clark instead. By conservative Texas standards...