Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that literary liberals so often try to make romantic martyrs out of people they feel compelled to defend? Take Larry Flynt, whose sleazy porn magazine Hustler has run afoul of a Cincinnati obscenity prosecution in a way that does outrageous violence to press freedom. A full-page ad in the New York Times, signed by, among others, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean, wasn't willing to leave it at that. In black block letters three inches high, it proclaimed, LARRY FLYNT: AMERICAN DISSIDENT. This label was enough to move the Times...
...breaking stories, being cross-questioned by John Chancellor and David Brinkley on the nightly news. In a way, this is to put the fox among the hens. It is to mix together presumably disinterested commentators with a very interested newsmaker who will have a past to defend as he talks about changes in foreign affairs made in his absence. This could make, on occasion, for a confusing spectacle. NBC must be counting on Kissinger's skill in ambivalent situations...
...former Cornell student, I must protest the reference in Sanford R. Cardin's article of February 14 to the Cornell swimming team as "hapless agriculture majors." I am not attempting here to defend the talents or lack thereof of the Cornell swimming team, but rather to clarify the status of Cornellians. First of all, there are many different colleges at Cornell University only one of which is agricultural. Secondly, while one can major in various aspects of agriculture in the New York State College of Agriculture, one can also major in biology, microbiology, statistics, botany...
...book on the case, In the Court of Public Opinion, written after his prison term, is a dry, legal brief attempting to prove how Chambers had practiced "forgery by typewriter," but reveals little of the feelings and emotions expected of a man when he is forced to defend his character and honor in an increasingly hostile arena. The reviewers panned the book and the public didn...
Designated E-4A, the $117 million Doomsday jet is a 231-ft.-long, 425-ton behemoth - the heaviest flying machine anywhere. It is a converted Boeing 747 that bulges and bristles with a mind-stunning array of electronic gadgetry designed to defend the plane and prevent interference with communications. It is also loaded with an equally dazzling array of high-and low-frequency communications devices. Capable of staying aloft for 72 hours, the plane can roam at low or very high altitudes, up to more than 45,000 ft. To keep in touch with U.S. submarines, the craft can unreel...