Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topcoats were either three times too small or four times too large and had never been to the cleaner. Felt hats look like they had been resurrected form the ash heap, while shirts look as though they hadn't seen the laundry in three weeks." The CRIMSON rose to defend itself and friends, claiming: "If the critical gentleman could only realize how much thought over a period of many years has gone into the process of making a Harvard student look like the man who comes for the ashes there would undoubtedly be a greater degree of appreciation betrayed...
...critical question which your generation will largely decide," Symington said, "is not merely whether Communism will be crushed, but whether freedom will survive; because we are in danger of inflicting serious damage upon the precious asset we seek to defend...
Democrat Symington sailed in to defend Vandenberg, the man who wasn't there. By indirection, Symington accused Charlie Wilson of failure to consult Vandenberg, the Air Force chief of staff, on the Air Force budget cuts. It was his understanding, said Symington, that at the time of the crucial NSC meeting, General Vandenberg had not yet been told that the planned slash in the defense budget would come almost entirely out of Air Force funds...
...delicate are the relationships, in fact, that today the U.S. is NATO-treaty-bound to defend Britain if she is attacked, while all Commonwealth nations but Canada (which also belongs to NATO) are free to do as they choose. It is a source of great pride to the British that all the dominions did come to the Crown...
...Perplexed Generation." Such announcements to the press often ignite a slow burn in Protestants who wish their church would defend its position and get up the figures to show that the way to Rome is anything but a one-way street. This week New York's Episcopal Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan made a move in this direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words...