Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of moral domino effect, leading the country toward permissiveness and degeneracy. "Do the fathers and mothers of Ireland want to see their children reared in an Irish-type St. Pauli, Soho or Pigalle?" demanded Dublin Accountant Desmond Broadberry, father of 17 children and member of the committee to "Defend 44." (He was referring to the pleasure zones of Hamburg, London and Paris.) "We urge a massive yes to a new Ireland, but no to a Godless Ireland," wrote a group of Catholic students in a joint letter to the Irish Times. As it turned out, the referendum...
...conclusion of her present tour of the country to thank the people in various cities who worked in her behalf, she intends to return to the West Coast and organize a national apparatus to work for the release of black and poor people now behind bars and to defend those about to be imprisoned. Already, she and SCLC have joined forces to defend Emily Butler, a young Georgia woman accused of murdering her supervisor at the Internal Revenue Service's huge installation in DeKalb County. What will eventually grow out of this alliance is also unclear, but certainly, the goals...
...talk ended in a more serious tone. "A resolution has diminished to make the sacrifices to remain free." Buckley said of the China trip. He cited a 1960 poll of Yale undergraduates which showed that 75 per cent believed the U.S. should defend itself even at the risk of nuclear war. Ten years later, he said, only 40 per cent made the name reply...
Squibb needed big names to defend the embattled Mysteclin-F, and it called on two of the biggest names in academic medicine, both on the Squibb payroll: Dean Ebert (a Squibb consultant), and Dean Lewis Thomas of the Yale Medical School a member of the Squibb Board of Directors...
...unusual move, Harvard President Derek Bok, former dean of the law school, appeared in court to defend Popkin and asked that the sentence be dropped so that "a conflict not exist" between the Government and the academic community. Besides, Bok said, he had been told that the Government did not intend to call Popkin back before the grand jury anyway. Government attorneys quickly answered that if Popkin would talk the grand jury was anxious to listen. With that, Judge W. Arthur Garrity concluded that Popkin should go to jail until the grand jury is dissolved, which may happen...