Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain was focused last week on Bradford, a sooty textile city in Yorkshire, where Britain's Labor government faced probably its last major test before next year's general elections. It was the 35th by-election since 1945 in which the Labor government was out to defend a parliamentary seat against the Conservatives; it proved to be Labor's 35th straight victory...
Overwhelmed by these workings of the law, unable to touch her capital, Mrs. McCullough wondered how she was going to defend herself. Columnist Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
...Germany Must Be Defended." Obviously, also, West Germany-as the Western world's most critical frontier against Communism-is worried about its ability to defend itself. To U.S. military leaders in Washington last week, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery gave his views on the matter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Frankfurt, U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson was quick to announce that as far as the U.S. was concerned, Germany must not be permitted to maintain an army. Nevertheless, arguments for arming...
Spencer Tracy playing an assistant District Attorney named Adam Bonner attempts to prosecute a woman (Judy Holliday) who took pot shots at her husband when she found his in the arms of another woman. Miss Hepburn (Bonner's wife) defends the accused woman. The trial becomes an attempt to defend women's rights to protect their families by any means they choose...
Schlesinger will be on hand to defend his position in the debate entitled "The Center and the Left...