Word: defendable
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...BREAKS TAXI DRIVER'S ARM. "I turned and chased and tackled him from behind, Johnny Raper style, and he hit the deck." "I've grown up in the western suburbs of Sydney." All my life. "Well, every now and then you've got to hold your hands up to defend yourself." Whack...
...next table, four freshmen from Pennypacker, who slogged through the snow for their meal, couldn’t help but overhear the seniors’ discussion and were quick to defend themselves...
...rally last Friday, nearly 50 Harvard staff, students and union workers accused Harvard of neglecting to defend their job security...
Democrats need to tell voters they have an obligation to help the poor, an obligation to defend the disenfranchised and the oppressed. Voters are sick and tired of being appealed to like consumers. They want to feel like their vote is more than something they trade in for a tax break or a subsidy. That’s why the evangelicals do so well. They don’t offer salvation on the cheap, but they do offer a chance to be part of something larger than the individual...
...circuit is a grind so relentless that players either turn down the intensity dial occasionally or else burn out. Whenever it mattered, Federer rose: he did not lose to anyone in the Top 10 and won all 11 finals he contested. He has to be favored to defend his Australian Open title, climaxing Jan. 30; there's also loose but understandable talk of him accomplishing some quite extraordinary feats before he's done with tennis: a grand slam, perhaps (winning all four major titles in the same year), and eclipsing the record of 14 majors won by Pete Sampras...