Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank, Kevin and a small group of moderate students took their stand. After a night of attacks repelled by 250 police using tear gas, the students, in the hope of avoiding bloodshed, asked the police to stay out of the area and let them put down the radicals and defend the bank. The student defenders succeeded, after numerous fistfights with the attackers. But in the melee, Kevin Moran was killed by a sniper's bullet...
Carmichael's appearance ended after a white girl asked him to defend his reported 1967 statement that a woman's role in the revolution is "to remain prone," Carmichael denied making the statement, and said that men and women have roughly equal revolutionary tasks...
Many Republicans, too, were dismayed at the choice Nixon had given them. One who pressed most actively for confirmation began to explain how rough his task had been. "When you try to defend a mediocre racist," he said ?and then he broke into laughter at how ridiculous that sounded. Maryland's Mathias thought at first that Carswell might "be getting a bum rap" from the kind of legal scholars who look down on lawyers who have not "been to Harvard," but decided to vote no after examining Carswell's record. Minority Leader Scott, influential with liberal Republicans, left most...
...doling out contempt charges and saying that lawyers "who are waiting in the wings" are responsible for the rise in crime. Kunstler finishes with a plea that his fate "not deter other lawyers throughout the country who, in the difficult days that lie ahead, will be asked to defend clients against a steadily increasing governmental encroachment upon their most fundamental liberties...
...Seale had been able to defend himself, if Clark were allowed to testify, if the defendants had been given a fair chance, maybe the outcome would have been different. Maybe not. Either way, the answer will not come from Julius Hoffman's courtroom...