Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begins a new booklet (Shotgun Wedding) by the U.S. Air Defense Command, whose screaming jets, while admired from afar, sometimes make enemies and alienate communities around air bases. Despite the jesting tone, the problem and the booklet are dead serious; the ADC's mission is to defend the U.S., and unlike other branches, it must live, work and perhaps fight amidst the people. Says the booklet: "No weapon . . . can be as crippling or devastating to a mission as congealed public opinion marshaled against a project...
Brando on Brando. Last week Actor Brando, interviewed by a TIME correspondent in his dressing room on the Désirée set, tried hard to scotch such talk and to explain his behavior. "I'll be damned if I feel obliged to defend myself," he burst out in a cultured and fervent half-whisper, "but I am sick to death of being thought of as a blue-jeaned slobbermouth and I am sick to death of having people come up and say hello and then just stand there expecting you to throw a raccoon at them...
During World War II Cassandra's attacks on the government were so savage that the Cabinet came close to suppressing the paper. After Dunkirk Cassandra bellowed for an all-out attack on Germany, even though Britain could barely defend itself at the time. He complained that the British army was weak because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky...
...islands to the Reds, giving them such a heavy preponderance of power that they would be ready to move in Europe. The free nations should let Red China know that if she invades-directly as in Korea, or indirectly as in Indo-China-any territory we have undertaken to defend, she must take the consequences not only on the violated land, but on her own mainland. Such a decision would involve risk, but there is no course we can follow without risk. To avoid a Communist world, we of the United States and other free nations must be willing...
...requiring speech. It is shouted down by devil's advocates, thrown into disorder by points of order . . . subdued by soft-voiced censors." To Griswold the disorderly noises issuing from the human race may lead to ugly consequences: "Conversation . . . laid the foundation of the civilization we are dedicated to defend. It was conversation of which the New Testament, the greatest teaching ever recorded, was composed . . . Great books, scientific discoveries, works of art, great perceptions of truth and beauty in any form, all require great conversation to complete their meaning; without it they are abracadabra-color to the blind or music...