Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grande dame v. the showgirl v. the teenybopper. As the experts see it, the women's gymnastics competition in Montreal is a three-way toss-up-with a half-twist, double back somersault, of course. Returning to defend her championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and it is a main source of the bare-knuckled union's awesome power. But last week the Internal Revenue Service challenged that power by canceling the fund's tax-exempt status, retroactive to Jan. 31, 1965. The IRS will surely have to defend its decision in court, but so far it has not even announced officially that it has changed the fund's status...
What if Communists were to participate in an Italian government? In that case, Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer has asserted: "Who could prevent us from following our own path? The frontiers are what they are." This statement implies that NATO might defend "Communism with a human face" in Italy from the Red army. If the Italian comrades believe that a "democratic Communism" can only exist behind the shield of the free world, I suggest that they take the decisive step: break their link with Moscow...
Student Unrest. The decree originally was a response to the student unrest and terrorism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although West German law already required all civil servants to defend and uphold the constitution, it was argued that new guidelines were required to specifically define "disloyalty." In January 1972, the then Chancellor Willy Brandt endorsed the decree, which barred people from public jobs if they were "members of organizations pursuing anticonstitutional aims...
Much is at stake in New York. And while it is a logical place for the British to attack, it is a less than ideal place for Washington to defend. One difficulty is the nature of the New Yorkers themselves. Colonel Knox, a Bostonian, has described them as "magnificent in their pride and conceit, which is inimitable; in the want of principle, which is prevalent; in their Toryism, which is insufferable, and for which they must repent in dust and ashes...