Word: defendable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think it's time someone arises to defend young Jelke and all the other cafe-society playboys and playgirls . . . After all, just who are they harming but themselves? The men have the money . . . the girls can always use the money . . . Both parties are satisfied and one of them profits monetarily by the transaction. So what's wrong with that? These affairs certainly meet the test of sound economic activity in this cold, commercial world, so why all the furor...
...spite of the obvious fairness of Dodd's decision, the Los Angeles Guild stuck to its anachronistic view that because the national Guild's constitution (written in 1933) specifically forbids any discrimination for political beliefs in admitting members, the Guild must therefore defend members fired for political reasons. President Smith might have done better to stand on a clear-cut principle, rather than the argument that Communists damage the paper "businesswise...
Personality: Has a modest manner, a quizzical mind, a pungent tongue. Likes to box, wrestle, ski. At 16, wrote a Judo manual in Arabic, entitled How to Defend Yourself, which became an Iraqi army text and a Bagdad bestseller. So far has shown little interest in politics...
...defend his thesis, Anthropologist Jeffreys noted some anthropological facts...
...peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for facts, a physical coward with an insatiable lust for power. He seldom left his palace, and depended on his great commander, Belisarius, to defend the empire. Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia...