Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard administrators are preparing for a major battle to defend the privacy of confidential information about students and employees contained in Harvard files. The main attacker appears to be the Federal Government...
...often known as the Shea Bill after its sponsor in the Massachusetts legislature, Rep. H. James Shea. Jr. (D-Newton), authorizes Massachusetts residents to refuse combat duty in wars Congress has not declared. Furthermore, it instructs Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn to defend and assist servicemen who refuse to fight on these constitutional grounds...
...hills. The decision still rankles many Leathernecks, who argue that they are an offensive team and should not have been sent in to conduct "a goal line stand." Army General William Westmoreland's decision to send the Marines into Khe Sanh also grates on the Corps. Ordered to defend the nearly encircled position "at all costs," the Marines held, losing 200 men before the eleven-week siege was lifted. They fared no better at Con Thien where they lost another 200 in a month...
Such unabashed populism pervades many of Ebert's columns. He has castigated horror films for sending seven-year-olds into nervous tears and deplored an "obscenely brutal" hunting film presented as "family" entertainment. But Ebert can also defend the balletic, bloody violence in The Wild Bunch on the grounds that, like a child's mock shootout, it is "no more real than dozens of gunfights I have already survived in the company of Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne." Nor is he prudish when it comes to a well-turned dash of décolletage. "If there...
Last fall, Harvard placed second to Princeton in the ECAC tournament, which included most of the East's top squads. Barring collapse. The Crimson could equal that finish in the League, and defend its New England title as well. But Washauer, Neilsen and Cavanagh will have to come through, and the lower ladder will have to firm...