Word: defend
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...tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside the 20-yd. line. Because a team has only three downs instead of four in which to gain 10 yds., there...
Brian Fearnett, Lawson Wulsin and the Crimson fullbacks will have to defend against a Bulldog offense that has averaged only 1.9 goals per game. Four out of five Yale wins have been by one-goal margins, including an upset victory over highly favored Penn two weeks...
...policy unhappily voted in favor of White House-sponsored appropriation bills and other practical measures that had the effect of continuing the fighting. They did so, Javits admits, because no patriotic American could in conscience vote to leave U.S. troops under fire without the weapons and supplies necessary to defend themselves. Legislative opponents of some future presidential intervention would undoubtedly feel some of the same pressure once U.S. fighting men had been committed, even for a few weeks, and conceivably could be railroaded into passing the required authorization by a President who skillfully used that argument...
...views illustrate how public opinion in this farming community (pop. 8,440) has hardened among some people. Those who were suspicious of Nixon now totally distrust him. But many still defend him and are insistent that the liberal news media are partly to blame. Farmer Carl Sensabaugh, 69, and his wife Katrina, 70, still pay more attention to the price of chicken feed, but are concerned about what is going on in Washington. He says: "I don't keep up with it except on TV, but I kinda feel like if they would leave the President alone...
...American Bar Association and the senior partner of the Houston law firm that in size and influence is second only to John Connally's. A lifelong Texas Democrat-although he supported Nixon in 1972-Jaworski reigns in Houston as the apotheosis of Establishment power. In 1948, Jaworski helped defend Lyndon Johnson against charges of fraud in the wake of the 87-vote victory that first sent him to the Senate. In 1960, he defended his friend against suits that sought to prevent him from running simultaneously for Vice President and Senator. Johnson put Jaworski on five presidential commissions...