Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find it damn discouraging to believe that the young ex-Navy lieutenant crying his heartfelt convictions out before a congressional ad hoc committee represents the majority feeling of America's youth. His fervent belief to be the "first to defend this nation should its shores be threatened" represents archaic thinking in a technological world...
...points out that the U.S. annually incurs such NATO expenses as $2.9 million in land taxes on bases in Great Britain and Germany and $265 million for the employment of European nationals by U.S. forces. "In other words," he says, "we are paying them to stay there and defend them...
...would seem to warrant. He has none of the pedigreed arrogance of his predecessors, and when he likes, he exudes a personal charm and warmth that have struck immense sympathy among those who associate with him. Even those who have left his staff over policy decisions are quick to defend his intellect and his motivations. And if personality traits do not redeem bad decisions and repugnant policies, they do a great deal to make them more understandable; for at the top crust of Washington policy-making, it is the impact of decisive personalities-not that of impressive intellect-which ultimately...
...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...
...There were probably over 15,000 police, federal troops and National Guardsmen mobilized in the streets of the District of Columbia. Estimates of the number of troops on call ranged as high as 200,000. When you think that the government was forced to go to this extreme to defend itself against Americans who say No, you don't have the civil right to carry on business as usual when this business as usual means death and destruction for millions, you see just how scared they were. And their fear, their fright that Mayday might actually challenge the way power...