Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs, mainly health, that the President felt the nation could not readily afford. House Minority Leader John Rhodes, Minority Whip Robert Michel, Congressmen John Anderson from Illinois and Barber Conable from New York knew that the President looked upon the vote as a key test of his ability to defend his tight budget. Not incidentally, a victory would give his campaign against Conservative Ronald Reagan a flying start by showing that Ford was not only a conservative but a leader who could make things happen-and keep them from happening...
...handful of people remaining in Damur stood in a bedraggled group near a church-quiet, anxious, clinging to their few belongings, which they had wrapped in small rugs. The leftists' commander, Abu Musa-a polite, unshaven Fatah officer-charged that Lebanese army commandos had helped defend the town, even though the army is supposed to be neutral. He gave the civilians the choice of staying or leaving for Christian-held areas; they chose to leave. Except for medicine and bare necessities, they were not allowed to take anything with them. Militiamen loaded furniture, household goods, washing machines and stereo...
...once dated the daughter of the academy's former superintendent Vice Admiral William P. Mack. He is also an avowed bisexual fighting dismissal from the service for homosexual behavior. At his discharge hearing before a five-officer board last week in Norfolk, Admiral Mack was on hand to defend...
...Kaddoumi, made the fourth for mal appearance in U.N. proceedings since Yasser Arafat's triumphal arrival at the U.N. the fall of 1974. Also as expected, Israel's Ambassador Chaim Herzog made good on his boycott threat if the P.L.O. was admitted. The U.S. was thus left alone to defend both Israel and its own Middle East policy...
...AMERICAN REVIVAL. Out of the decline of the West there will, I sense, emerge a rise in spirits. We have shortened our lines. We are under attack. [But] there is nothing in our culture that suggests we will not in the end defend ourselves successfully. We are the party of liberty. Always have been, even when least true to it. As the lights go out in the rest of the world, they shine all the brighter here...