Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justify such acts in the name of the First Amendment is just absurd. Surely you must know that the law prohibits the use of obscene language in public places, disorderly conduct, violent language, and interfering with a police officer in the exercise of his duty. You might as well defend the shouting of "Fire!" in a crowded theater...
...past, of course, the Soviets have always regarded it their duty to defend Communism against the imperialists. But now, as enunciated by Soviet Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko at the U.N. and by Pravda, the official party newspaper, the Soviet Union asserts the right to intervene in any member country of the Socialist Commonwealth where the purity or supremacy of the party might be threatened. Diplomats are uncertain whether the pronouncement represents only an after-the-fact rationalization for the invasion of Czechoslovakia or whether it is a major development in Soviet doctrine that could justify the dispatch of Red Army...
Bundy denounced the "high polarization of opinion" concerning the war in the U.S. and warned that this would impede the progress of any new proposals. He said that the best way to rally public opinion to defend his policy would be to demonstrate the "undesirability of other courses...
Most of the more than thirty observers who spoke at the meeting were presently in the ROTC program and came to the HUC to defend...
...event perfectly illustrates the point. Britain entered the Crimean War on the side of Turkey, largely to defend its own imperialistic interests against possible Russian expansion. Two of England's leading generals, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, were quarrelsome brothers-in-law. A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it." At the front, battles with the Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted...