Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinking. Asked a reporter: Does the decision to stretch out NATO's defense build-up "represent a change in policy from the time that you were in command of NATO forces?" Replied the President, thumping the desk: There must be constant review of build-up plans. To defend themselves, nations must make a living, and the problem of making a living must be collated with the problem of security...
...adjectives. Yet whenever a reporter writes of the 'beautiful' Rita Hayworth, 'scowling' John L. Lewis, 'Millionaire' Charles E. Wilson or 'Red-hunt ing' Joe McCarthy, he is influencing the reaction of readers in a somewhat nonobjective way, even though he can defend his choice of words with undisputed proof. Honest newspapermen will admit, also, that they unavoidably influence reader reaction by [the placement of] articles . . . The mere fact that an article is on page 1 is an unobjective admission that the editors consider it important...
...battery additive produced by Pioneers Inc. and dubbed AD-X2. As a result, the Post Office Department canceled Pioneer's mailing rights. Then Weeks stepped in and secured the firm its post office sanction and, on March 31, demanded and received Astin's resignation. When called to defend his action before the Senate Small Business Committee, Weeks claimed that Astin had not been sufficiently objective in his tests. He cited similar tests made at M.I.T., claiming that in this case, AD-X2 had proved successful. The official spokesman for the Institute, however, stated that AD-X2 had shown no effect...
...Mallinckrodt MB-9. Austin Lake, sports columnist of the Boston American will present his views, but debate among the members will follow lines decided at the pre-meeting caucus. According to Hugh J. Schwartzburg '54, member of the Athenaeum Board of Governors, a number of members are prepared to defend some sort of subsidation of football players to improve the team...
...West lets itself be trapped by such Red beguilement, Germany will be a vacuum into which Red armies might some day rush, leaving the West to defend the Continent's edge against a Soviet power augmented by Germany's strength. As much as any European. Adenauer sees the danger. His Washington visit was a big step toward scotching...