Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Montand might as well have said that Ripple had been designated the official French wine, for the Palais audience immediately erupted in derisive whistles and howls. Catherine Deneuve, who presented the award, pleaded futilely for the mob to give the director a chance to defend his honor. But the catcalls delighted Pialat. "If you don't like me," he proclaimed, "I can tell you, I don't like you either." He smiled and raised a defiant fist. More boos, more hoots. Somebody spat at him. PALME D'OR SCANDALE A CANNES, screamed the next day's papers...
...defenseless positions, the President announced that all vessels in the gulf were told to take a far more defensive posture. "From now on," he told a Chattanooga, Tenn., high school, "if aircraft approach any of our ships in a way that appears hostile, there is one order of battle: defend yourselves, defend American lives...
...world role. Washington resisted Soviet probes into Iran in 1946, and since then has played a dominant role in the region. Under what became known as the Carter Doctrine, for example, the U.S. declared the Persian Gulf to be an area of vital strategic interest and pledged to defend it militarily from any incursions by the Soviet Union or any other nation...
While the U.S. has its own strategic interests to defend in the Persian Gulf | region, the West Europeans and Japan clearly have the most at stake in that dangerous area. Yet some U.S. officials complain that America's allies are not contributing enough to the gulf's defense, and Kenneth Timmerman, author of a recent study on arms sales to Iran and Iraq titled Fanning the Flames, agrees. Says Timmerman: "The Europeans are doing nothing to safeguard their own interests in the gulf...
...that Derek Bok has intervened to overrule,it would be particularly difficult to defend notintervening in the case of the denied promotion ofClare Dalton," Tribe said...