Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitutional law, Sutherland paid special attention to the Constitution as applied to international affairs, and to the Bill of Rights. During the McCarthy era, he used his legal expertise to advise and to help defend Harvard Faculty members who were attacked by the Wisconsin Senator...
...windows to scream about "what these women need." Other sympathetic men automatically sat vigil in case of a bust, offering to assist in protecting the building. But the women inside said no; they had taken the building, made it habitable, and should they decide to defend it, they would do it themselves...
...decision reflects a committment shared by all but a small minority of senior faculty to defend the structure of power and privilege, both within the Economics Department and in the larger capitalist society...
...Regarding "Frankie and His Friends": if Mrs. Maxine Cheshire really wanted to defend her virtue in her children's eyes, methinks she could do better by exhibiting charity...
Pompidou, whose presidential term still has three years to run, solemnly pledged to defend France's democratic institutions: "I am obliged to state that the Communist and Socialist proposals will completely overthrow those institutions." If such a possibility seemed remote to French voters, Gaullist Premier Pierre Messmer stressed the presumed economic consequences of a leftist sweep. He predicted a "chain reaction" of increased unemployment, a balance of payments deficit, loss of foreign markets and trouble for the franc...