Word: defend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This country is not withdrawing into isolation. With the Soviet Union, we want a relationship in which the interests of both are respected. When interests conflict, we prefer negotiation and restraint as the methods to adjust differences. But, when challenged, the U.S. will defend its interests and those of its allies...
...will protect the language from all those oversimplifiers and overcomplicators who kill meaning with shouts or smother it with cautious mumbles? In theory, certain professions should serve as a sort of palace guard sworn to defend the mother tongue with their lives. Alas, the enemy is within the gates. Educators talk gobbledygook about "non-abrasive systems intervention" and "low structure-low consideration teaching style." Another profession guilty of non-defense is lexicography. With proud humility today's dictionary editor abdicates even as arbiter, refusing to recognize any standards but usage. If enough people misuse disinterested as a synonym...
Though the detergent industry continues to defend the use of phosphates, manufacturers are casting about for a substitute cleaning agent. NTA, a nitrogen-based ingredient, seemed briefly promising until it was found to be a potential health hazard. A return to soap chips is not feasible because they would literally gum up the works of most automatic washing machines...
...actors into character, their accents polished and their presence refined. He has a solid idea of how The Homecoming should be played, communicating Pinter's basic idea summed up in Max's advice to his third son, the would-be boxer: "What you've got to do is defend yourself, then you've got to learn how to attack ... once you've learned those two things, you can go straight...
...rally is being sponsored by the Committee to Defend the Right to Live, which was set up in Saigon by Vietnamese women. The committee says that it allies itself with the Saigon committee because "both the war and sexism foster dominance and oppression by the same white, male ruling elite...