Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That claim seemed at best peculiar, since Anderson's assistant had showed her the memo three weeks before, giving her plenty of time to denounce it. If the memo was a fake, why did ITT go to the trouble of shredding its documents in Washington? Early on, ITTs defenders went to some lengths to portray Mrs. Beard as a sometimes irrational incompetent. Having first tried to discredit her, they are hard pressed to defend what she says...
...name on her driver's license. Most states allow a husband to sue for loss of consortium if his wife is injured, while only a minority extend a parallel right to the wife when the husband is incapacitated. North Carolina and Missouri even allow a woman to defend herself against a criminal charge by arguing that her husband ordered her to commit the crime...
...from the drama of the bullfight to the drama of Casey Cowen, age 25, struggling comedian in New York City? "I like the irony in the title," says Liz Coe, "I see the comedian as synonymous with the matador, very much in an arena, and required to defend herself with the only weapons available. She has what can be likened to a sword--her aggressive sense of humor. Her cape is her sense of humor used as a disguise...
...Little Red Soldiers Mao Tse-tung Thought Team. Then there was the demonstration by the People's Militia, which practices twice a week. The marksmen-some were eight-year-old girls who were smaller than the rifles they carried -ran to the firing line shouting "Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland!" The targets no longer carried the slogan "Defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year-old factory worker named Kung Wei-kuo, explained that the training was "entirely defensive. We want to mobilize...
...order by "force and repression." In January, when he took office as the new Archbishop of Madrid-Alcala, Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 64-himself the son of a working-class family-pointedly pledged that he was the "spokesman for those who have no voice to defend their legitimate aspirations-the poor...