Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Regents, refusing to fire Tandy outright, cut the ground from under Jacobs. He then felt obliged to defend his Faculty's action. "Mr. Tandy," he said, "has raised the issue of academic freedom. The faculty and students of this college have been and will be free to learn . . . however, if they engage in political action, the institution will not and cannot protect them from the social consequences of their activity . . . it has long accepted in the teacher's code of ethics that any teacher who wishes to enter the political arena would sever his connection with his institution...
...honor of the Michael Mullins Marching and Chowder Society's brilliant efforts is defend Hibernia against marauding inadels from lower Bow St., there will be so Crime tomorrow...
...hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty . . . that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America . . . and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ..." But here Corporal Plywacki boggled. The next words were "So help me God." Wladyslaw Plywacki explained that he was an atheist, therefore could not in honesty use those words...
...wife (Susan Hayward). When Rachel Donelson Robards married Jackson, there was a legal error about her divorce from her first husband. Two years later, when the error was discovered, Jackson and Rachel were remarried. But Rachel Jackson was often the object of slanderous gossip (Jackson fought duels to defend her honor), and during his campaign for the presidency, his political enemies called her an adulteress. Although she died before Jackson was inaugurated, she lived to hear the news of his election...
...this point, the Abolitionists, led by a New York merchant named Lewis Tappan, began to protest. To return the Africans to Spain was to sentence them to death. A legal staff was assembled to defend Cinqué and his people. Sketches of Cinqué, suggesting a rare nobility of nature, roused public support in the North; friends of the Africans quoted William Cullen Bryant's poem...