Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correct in your assessment "that a nation's most fundamental social-welfare obligation to its citizens is to defend them against attack." But which attack is more real, a presupposed threat from without, or the threat of cities in decay, rampant inflation, a raging crime rate...
...think the seizure is extremely irresponsible and in defiance of all international laws. I don't understand why such a student action can be endorsed by the legitimate government of any nation." Others staunchly defend the embassy seizure. Said an accounting major at Chicago's Roosevelt University...
...arrests and trials in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia have fostered a new spirit of unity among East bloc dissidents, who have launched a coordinated attempt to defend one another...
...Business School Harvard has had an enormous impact on Europe, speeding up the destruction of the traditional society and culture on which European art depends. It is ironic that as an institution it has done so much to attack what it has always claimed, with flowery rhetoric, to defend...
Isham sparkles in his role as bastard son of Richard Coeur de Lion, a true-hearted Englishman ready to defend King and country against all comers. He baits his enemies and prances and banters during his soliloquies in the first half of the play. Isham's natural improvisations establish a rapport with the audience, which surrounds the Mather House stage on three sides...