Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after gibes by fellow Laborites that he was a "monarchist" who had sold out and "joined in building up the royal wedding ballyhoo," Driberg felt constrained to defend his besmirched leftist reputation by leaning over backward so far he reached almost from Buckingham Palace to Billingsgate. Said Driberg...
...Willner '47 and Howard Swarts-man '47 will defend the motion of the evening: "Resolved, That the Constitution be amended so as to remove the present incumbent from the presidency when the Congress is controlled by the opposing party." The Council will try for its sixth victory of the fall...
...suggest Justice Robert Jackson? In his speech at the opening of the Nürnberg trials he presented more clearly and forcefully than any other living person, the basic American concept that man must defend his fellow man against injustices...
...letter writers, while mostly disagreeing with Scott's irreligion, commended the station for letting him speak his mind. A Congregational minister expressed their views: "It is good for any institution to be under healthful criticism, including the church. It is good for any theory to defend itself from time to time...
...Kalgan, the Japs built and left largely intact an ambitious and forward-looking economic plant. The Communists fell heir to the prize, which served them as a powerful corridor between Yenan and Manchuria and a "show window" of policy for all the nation. Not only did they fail to defend this area militarily, but as they fell back before the Government armies they kicked in the show window, leaving a destructive disarray appalling in a nation so economically needy as China...