Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herrnstein said that the work of the researchers who produced the three studies with conclusions similar to Burt's has not been called into question "probably because they are still alive to defend themselves...
Then there is the George Hughes (John's brother)-Gene Purdy act on the second line. Hughes and Purdy were freshmen sensations in '75, this time they are experienced sophomores, and Hughes returns to defend his point-scoring title...
...seemed as though the environment dominated Harvard's style of play. Their performance, like the field, was sloppy. Harvard's offense was frustrated by dropped passes and numerous penalties, and the defense was plagued by the periodic loss of its ability to defend...
...should expect an educated individual to have good manners and high aesthetic and moral standards. By this I mean the capacity to reject shoddiness in all its many forms, and to explain and defend one's views effectively and rationally...
ENVIRONMENT. In trying to defend his Administration's generally weak record on environmental protection, Ford fell into some exaggerations. He claimed he had vetoed a strip-mining-control bill because it would have meant a loss of some 140,000 jobs. In fact, that was an inflated industry claim; in his own veto message last year, Ford contended that it might mean the loss of at most 36,000 jobs. Carter was right in pointing out that the job-conscious United Mine Workers had backed the bill. He was correct too in noting that Ford had held back funds...