Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resignation as director of the Office of Management of Budget was an unavoidable resolution of the controversy that has surrounded him since June. The allegations of improprieties in his private banking activities suggest his integrity is less than complete, and Lance's use of a strong counterattack to defend himself at last week's Senate hearings is partially justified by the aggressive nature of the media and certain Congressional critics, but such a defense could never have made him palatable as a high government official...
...will never cease to puzzle me how so many people can be so deceived for so long in spite of all evidence against their delusion. Even some parents of cult members will defend to the death the madmen who enslave their children's minds. Fortunately for me, God has special providence for fools and idiots, and some of us escape. I was one of the few lucky ones to escape with my life and sanity still intact...
Carter insists that Lance be permitted to exit in his own way. The President's embattled friend has demanded a chance to defend himself fully against charges of misusing his top positions at two Georgia banks to enhance his free-spending lifestyle and embark on a political career. Lance should get that opportunity this week in a session with the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee, which approved his elevation to OMB director last January, ringingly re-endorsed him only seven weeks ago and now seems to feel it was misled. But no matter how forcefully and shrewdly Lance defends...
...successful scriptwriter, David Rintels, when criticized for one of his scripts, protested, "I stuck to the record, except in intimate scenes where there was no record." You don't have to be O.J. Simpson to drive through such a hole. Networks, too, get pretty fatuous when they defend their truth bending. When a committee of scientists objected to the way the networks played up and glorified pseudo science in shows like NBC's Bermuda Triangle special, a network spokesman explained that it was put on by its entertainment division and had not been labeled an NBC News special...
...years after the Indians filed their suit. A stormy Gay Head town meeting, which received extensive coverage from the national media, provided the opposition's impetus. After the dust settled, the town of Gay Head, with an Indian majority, voted both to dismiss the lawyer the town hired to defend the suit against the tribal council and to give the contested land to the Indians. Vague hints that the town might wish to code even more land to the Wampanoags upset the whites, so the Taxpayer's Association initiated legal action...