Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before Sunday night, President Reagan never had to defend his record for more than the minute it takes him to walk across the White House lawn to his helicopter. Unlike the past, President Reagan could not pass off the big holes in his political safety net with accusations of press persecution, or silly anecdotes about the woman in Lubbock, Texas, who used her $10 food stamps to buy grain alcohol...
...York Times's William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, called Reagan's remarks on the bombings "even more pusillanimous than Jimmy Carter's protracted hand-wringing at the seizure of hostages in Tehran." If Reagan "does not have the means or guts to defend our embassy," contended Safire, "he should have the good grace to close it down." Editorially, the Wall Street Journal warned that "unless someone is held accountable this time, no one will be accountable next time and another avoidable tragedy will doubtless follow...
...children into the car, and drove off as the house went up in flames. The TV movie, written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg from a book by Faith McNulty, tells the story of Francine's marriage, mostly in flashback, as she relates it to the attorney appointed to defend her on a murder charge...
...letter--his seventh on university principles since he began the practice five years ago--takes the form of a fairly specific attack on the various defenses raised for heckling, many of which were used to defend the shouting down of Weinberger. To the argument that certain speakers have committed or overseen evils so terrible that they have forfeited their right to speak, Bok responds that "no one has the right to decide for others which speakers are to be heard or which public discussions deserve to take place...
...manufacturer of a weapon that became famous for its successful use against Britain during the 1982 Falklands war took out an advertisement in a British magazine last week-not to apologize but to defend the weapon against charges that it is a lemon. The sponsor of that milestone in marketing history is Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, the French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South...