Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doctors defend such decisions as a part of the practice of medicine. "What is the point," asks one Manhattan physician, "of restarting a terminal cancer patient's stopped heart so that he can survive in agony for a few more weeks?" But almost all doctors are decidedly uneasy about terminating treatment once it has been started, especially if doing so will mean the certain death of a patient. Many doctors, after all, are taught to regard death as an enemy and to do all they can to defeat it-or at least to keep...
...corollary of each man's right to control his own life is the right to defend it. This right to self-defense implies the right to employ the means necessary to carry it out, one of the most effective means being the use of a handgun in emergencies. The right of self-defense, therefore, is an additional reason for maintaining a presumption against outlawing handgun ownership...
...would be enforced against this one percent, because few laws, let alone gun laws, are enforced against the reckless criminal today. Common notions of justice would suggest, however, that the criminal one per cent be punished and the law abiding 99 per cent, who are only trying to defend themselves, be left free...
...Johnson) announces in the opening scene, and so he and Blood set out to find a victim. Vic, dressed like a Confederate soldier after Gettysburg and toting a carbine, is finally rewarded when Blood senses a female with his telepathic powers. They track her to an abandoned house and defend her against a roverpak in a boring, senseless and long drawn out shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden...
Still, when psychiatric judgment is required, experts try to supply what the court needs to know. Generally they form their opinions by simply talking with the defendant. "What you would see," explains Dr. James Richmond, who has examined Squeaky Fromme, "is a doctor having a conversation with a patient." If the concern is whether the defendant is mentally able to stand trial and defend himself, the psychiatrist concentrates on such matters as the defendant's comprehension of the charges, his ability to follow what his attorney says, and his reaction to authority figures (some defendants go blank when faced...