Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's fencing team makes its second consecutive appearance at the NCAA championship today in Princeton, N.J. All-America Jim O'Neill will defend his NCAA championship this weekend...
...people through the Congress. Still they back the intentions of their men, pretending that it is enough to say that "mistakes were made" when talking about being faithful to fundamental precepts of democracy. With North's resignation from the marines, he has promised to subpoena "high officials" to defend him. Perhaps on the witness stand, those who made the policy will finally be forced to take responsibility for its undemocratic nature...
...should be suspended in 1988. On Tuesday night one of Dole's Democratic friends, Party Elder Bob Strauss, was visibly saddened by the G.O.P. election returns. Then he brightened and observed, "The Democratic Party may be better off with this result." However, such doubts about Bush's ability to defend the Reagan palace, either in November or in the White House, were invisible among Republican voters on Super Tuesday...
Secord, appearing on ABC-TV's "Nightline" program called the indictments "crazy. There's going to be no plea. We're going to defend this case successfully, and I think the IC [independent counsel] is going to be looking very silly very soon...
...cases in which sharp disagreements persist, and discussion of them may occassionally move into a more public arena. As members of a Faculty with a commitment to free and open debate and an unabridged right to determine the content of our courses, we should be prepared to defend our views. Students also have a right to disagree both within and outside the classroom. The University cannot prevent all of the conflicts that a commitment to free enquiry may provoke. But in this case it continues to be my hope that our students' concerns will be discussed directly with the faculty...