Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teammates, acknowledging that St. Louis keeps the ball and shoots much of the time during the game, are quick to defend their squad's offensive sparkplug. As one player said, "Sue really enjoys taking someone one-on-one. She doesn't look for the easy pass...
...adviser: "The foreign exchange speculators got their way. We are going to build fewer houses and buy fewer cars in order to defend the dollar...
...will Carter's measures work? Only if he holds to them even when the results begin to turn unpleasant. The clearest reaction among economists, bankers and businessmen in the U.S. and Europe last week was that borrowing to defend the dollar would "buy time" to tackle inflation and the trade deficit. That is no insignificant gain; until the mad dollar-selling orgy was stopped, no economic policy of any kind had a chance of succeeding. The Administration has now shown speculators that the dollar can go up as well as down, and the boldest seller will think twice about fighting...
...winner's share of the purse (part of which will flow into the Soviet treasury), he can now relax with the chauffeured Mercedes, apartments in Moscow and Leningrad and other luxuries his chess title affords him. But he may soon face another ordeal: Bobby Fischer, who failed to defend the championship in 1975 after whomping Soviet Boris Spassky, was in Belgrade, reportedly looking for a tune-up match in preparation for challenging Karpov...
Harvard's administrators neither defend nor criticize final clubs. Cleveland Amory wrote that Harvard officials at the time considered the clubs "a necessary evil," from which much of the University's wealth was drawn. One of Amory's friends wondered why it was necessary to have a group of men who "dress alike, look alike, walk alike, talk alike, and, if pressed, think alike...