Word: defend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spectators and all 100 Senators in their seats, the clerk began calling out the names. In just ten minutes of voting, the first of the two treaties was narrowly approved, 68 to 32-one more vote than the required two-thirds. The treaty gives the U.S. the right to defend the canal's neutrality after it is ceded to Panama by the year 2000. The second treaty, to be voted on next month, provides for the actual transfer of authority-and may provide another jarring Senate battle. But in the moment of victory last week, a great noise welled...
...Lebanon.' " Carter will once more urge Begin to show more flexibility (over 242, for instance, and the question of Jewish settlements) and will undoubtedly express some serious reservations about the size and nature of the Israeli response to the terrorist attack. For his part, Begin will defend the venture in Lebanon as a vital security measure, and he will make a strong pitch to Carter to change his mind and refrain from selling F-15s to Saudi Arabia and F-5Es to Egypt. On that sensitive issue, Begin has been getting powerful (and perhaps decisive) support from Israel's vocal...
Although CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn had originally opposed giving Braniff the Dallas-London route (he wanted it to go to Pan Am), he moved quickly to defend the Texas-based airline. In a plea to the White House. Kahn denounced Britain's action as a "fundamental and flagrant breach" of the Bermuda II pact, which governs air travel between the two countries. He urged Carter to retaliate by suspending British Caledonian's flights between London and Houston, that airline's only service...
...HARVARD-RADCLIFFE Constitutional Convention--already bruised from some hard blows delivered by the campus minority groups and the liberal purists who valiantly fought to defend the sanctity of the one-man-one-vote philosophy--will face the obstacle of surmounting the negative opinion about the constitution that has resulted, in part, from both the inability of Harvard students to come to a consensus and the famous cynicism that Time magazine has so perceptively told us pervades our campus. The brazen convention members, up to now, have been confident that one day they would be able to call themselves the founding...
Some of the pummeled husbands are too old or sick to defend themselves, but most are able bodied. One type of victim is the baffled he-man who is afraid of unleashing his own violence. Says Steinmetz: "There is a feeling among beaten men: 'If I ever let go I would kill her.' " Another type is the passive, dependent man who has sought out a strong wife to shield him from worldly problems. Barbara Star, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California, finds that battered spouses are usually people who feel overwhelmed by life...