Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hand of Poker. More than 100 amend ments to the New Deal had already been submitted by special interests. The wine lobby, the distillers, the civil servants, the farmers-all had their champions popping up to defend their privileges. Wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, an old-fashioned financier, was alarmed. The plan, he said, is "as vague as it is irreproachable." "If I understand you correctly," Reynaud said, "your scenario is like this: you open the frontiers, and there is a massive invasion of foreign goods. There is a terrible shock, and you pick up the wounded at the expense...
...benefitted as well, nor does it subtract from the end result to know that the impetus came from a desire to 'promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' " ¶ That the foundations have an "internationalist" bias. "We find it puzzling to be called upon to defend what seems to us to be so obvious, that American scholarship should encompass other cultures and that educated Americans should know something about the world in which they live." ¶ That the foundations have placed too much emphasis on "empirical" studies and the social sciences. "The relation between empirical studies...
...small hearth of the spirit of the West in the East." Last week the hearth was flaring up dangerously. In the village of Dadrá, ten miles southeast of the town of Damão, Policeman A. P. Rozaerio was addressing 150 restive villagers on their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized his rifle and began spraying bullets into the lingering darkness. He had not gotten far when villagers...
Cries of outrage swelled into a chorus in the U.S. press, aided by Hollywood's alert pressagents, out to defend their clients' stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...
...Mendès is honest. He commands respect and admiration, and no objective review of his performance can avoid that conclusion. He inherited a situation which had already been rendered disastrous by the inability of France to defend Indo-China, and in that desperate situation, the Geneva agreement is not entirely...