Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who defend the measure point out that in recent years candidates for a commission were required to complete a similar form mid-way through their senior year. But this hardly answers the suspicion that suddenly giving freshmen the same tests is more ostentatious that efficient...
...this point even the parents of Act 888 could not defend it. As public protest and pressure mounted, even some of the men who had sponsored or voted for the bill began to attack it. By this time it was clear that if an effort were made to enforce the Act, Alabama would have no book supply...
Rueful Admission. Flying home from the Manila Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles spent three hours with Chiang in Taipei. Dulles promised moral support, but would not publicly say whether the U.S. commitment to defend Formosa and the adjoining Pescadores also covers Quemoy. At week's end, Major General William C. Chase, head of the U.S. military mission to Formosa, was in Quemoy on an inspection trip...
...Urge to Defend. As a Negro ("dozens of Indians told me that I was 'one of them' because I looked like a Madrasi . . ."), Professor Redding could penetrate layers of Indian life that are closed to white men. It was his job to speak up for America, and he did so; but India's universities made him suffer for it. Because of his color, he was urged to heap abuse on all white men, and particularly on white Americans. When he spoke, instead, of improving race relations in the U.S., his hot-eyed young listeners denounced...
...Until I came to India," Redding says, "I had no idea that there was in me so great an urge to defend America . . . Communism meant little more than inter esting reading in the newspapers . . ." In India he met the enemy face to face-in Assam villages, where "even the small children gathered with their elders ... to chorus Jai to the Red flag"; in Hyderabad, where scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier...