Word: defendable
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...more than “some” time—it’s an eternity, both to defend an empty net and to maintain a lead while skating against a man-advantage...
...Bright Center filled with angry screams as Grumet-Morris stayed on his back, for several moments. Welch materialized by the crease again, ready to defend his backstop, and Trevelyan was sent to the box for charging, negating a St. Lawrence power play...
...long held a print of the film, and in one of the more celebrated episodes in the Archive’s history, the founding curator Vlada Petric had to defend the projection booth against a group of offended audience members who wanted to terminate a screening of [The] Birth of a Nation,” Jenkins writes in an e-mail...
Being forced to defend the right’s irresponsible agenda is only one way in which Frist has abandoned his Hippocratic Oath. The Medicare bill which he lobbied for, championed, and then navigated through Congress in 2003 did little to curb soaring prescription drug prices or aid Medicare recipients, who on average already spend 20 percent of their income on prescription drugs. The bill did wonders, however, for the Frist family business, Columbia/HCA—the nation’s leading owners of hospitals...
...entered the universities for the first time. There was a weak president eager to be on the good side of a hot new thing, admitting great numbers of black students, no matter what their preparation. Of course, it was very hard on those kids. It was much harder to defend institutions that people saw as bourgeois. People just didn't feel good about them. It was more important to be engaged and committed. At places like Cornell, people just didn't believe in very much any longer. Free discussion was no longer the primary function of the university. Only...