Word: defend
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Harvard has the talent to remain one of the top five or six teams in the East. Whether it has the talent to defend the ECAC title is less probable...
SOUTH Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu had remained conspicuously silent for a month. Now, accompanied by his bodyguards, he made his way to Saigon's television studios to defend before a fretful nation his decision to proceed with the presidential election next month. The election will be unusual even by Vietnamese standards: only Thieu's name will be on the ballot. Dismissing any notion of resigning to assure a fair race among equal contestants as "the act of a deserter," Thieu proposed to make, the election a referendum on his popularity. The terms: "I would...
Ephesus is over 400 pages long and contains no fewer than 55 chapters full of encounters, imbroglios, plots. Not all of them work, and occasionally the pace slackens. The author is vulnerable to charges of excess and lack of critical judgment. One may as well try to defend reality. The only rejoinder is how vivid and how much like life the book is. The late Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." This is a novel. · Martha Duffy
...better example would be Martin Luther King, who invited his arrests for a quite specific political goal. Or Bobby Scale, who underwent a political trial as a member, for a time, of the Chicago "conspiracy"-but not as a defendant in the New Haven trial, where a murder was involved. Or the Berrigan brothers, whose destruction of draft cards was a symbolic action directly intended to change the political course of the U.S. Undeniably the U.S. can and does manipulate the law to punish political dissenters. Yet unlike the ideological prisoners of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, America...
...withhold their payments of rent and property taxes. A one-day strike virtually shut down the business district of the predominantly Catholic city of Londonderry. When 1,300 British troops attempted to dismantle the recently rebuilt Derry barricades, which since 1969 have symbolized the Catholics' determination to defend themselves, residents responded with rioting and random rifle fire. Two moderate M.P.s, trying to restore order, were arrested for "failing to move on the command of a member of Her Majesty's forces." Next day, 30 leading Londonderry Catholics resigned from civic bodies in a total withdrawal of the city...