Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, these rules automatically avoid the inquisition methods so prevalent in many investigations. The checks on most committees are loose enough to permit abuse of any witness' individual freedom. Under this system, many committees have become one-sided tribunals, constantly accusing, but giving their victims no chance to defend themselves. If the rules were tightened, much of this sensationalism would give way to honest investigation...
...abandoned laundry in Wilmette Ill., scientists working for the U.S. Army are patiently defrosting the arctic's icies secrets. While comic-strip artists fight th next war in outer space, the men in Wilmette are learning to defend a closer battle line: the frigid wasteland that arcs across the top of the world...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee moved out of its cramped old quarters in the Capitol into the spacious hearing room of the Banking & Currency Committee to hear Secretary of State John Foster Dulles defend the President's resolution on enslaved peoples (TIME, March 2). Nonetheless, the seats were filled, reporters were jammed against television cameras, and standees rimmed the room by the time Dulles took the witness chair. First he read a carefully prepared statement, setting forth the high principles of the resolution. Then he pointed out the pitfalls of flatly repudiating the Yalta or Potsdam agreements of World...
...prepared to defend what I know to be sound and defensible," said Dulles. "I am not prepared blindly to defend a situation which was created under my predecessors, and which I have taken office with a mandate to change. I welcome any disclosures resulting from congressional inquiries that will help to make the Department of State more competent, loyal and secure. [These] are months of difficulty, since it will necessarily take considerable time before the new Administration through its own orderly processes can correct the accumulated errors of the last 20 years. It is a time when exposure through congressional...
...cried, is using Asians as "cannon fodder," building "strong armies-in Japan, Formosa, Burma, Pakistan, Thailand and South Korea.'' What seemed to worry the Soviet delegate was the fact that these armies might one day be used to defend Asia from Communist aggression. "It is clear," he snapped, "that there can be no question of a peaceful program in such circumstances...