Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, after word reached reporters that Blumenthal had refused the job because he did not feel he could defend Administration policy in Southeast Asia, Donald Rumsfeld, director of the. Office of Economic Opportunity, explained that Blumenthal 1) had not really turned the job down; 2) had turned the job down for nonpolitical reasons; 3) had never been offered the job anyway...
...humble brick, crisp steel or powerfully molded concrete, the structures somehow look ready for any attack. A case in point is the rust-colored, 13-story agronomy tower designed by Ulrich Franzen for the State University of New York at Cornell. It not only looks eminently easy to defend but also is assertive in its own right. With good reason. The agricultural college, long treated as a stepchild by Cornell, needed to get back into view. While marking the ag college with the tower, however, Franzen respectfully designed and sited the $6,500,000 structure to defer to, rather than...
...which he advised Speer never to visit. "I did not investigate," Speer recalls, "for I did not want to know what was happening there." The camp was Auschwitz. "Because I failed at that time," Speer writes, " Istill feel responsible for Auschwitz in a wholly personal sense." Speer does not defend himself by arguing that he did not know what was happening. "By entering Hitler's party, I had already, in essence, assumed a responsibility that led directly to the brutalities of forced labor, to the destruction of war and to the deaths of those millions of so-called undesirable...
...State Department contends that the agreement does not constitute any commitment by the U.S. to defend Spain if it is attacked by another nation, and thus is not similar to a mutual-defense treaty requiring ratification. The highly ambiguous language of the agreement includes a promise that each government "will support the defense system of the other" and "will make compatible their respective defense policies in areas of mutual interest." No one seems sure just what that means-which is probably the intent. The agreement will allow the U.S. to continue to use three airbases in Spain (at Saragossa, Moron...
...American norm. Children work in the fields partly to maintain the family income, partly because their mothers simply cannot afford to stay at home to look after them. To answer for his company, Coca-Cola President J. Paul Austin was called up before the subcommittee. Rather than try to defend Coca-Cola's record, Austin was refreshingly candid. He concluded that the living conditions of the workers are indeed "deplorable...