Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Erskine Caldwell flew from Tucson, Ariz. to help defend eight theater people arrested in Vancouver, B.C. and charged with staging an obscene performance. The performance: Caldwell's Tobacco Road. Said the author: "I have [seen] Tobacco Road at least once a year for the past 20 years . . . There is nothing obscene ; it may be that the play is too close to the people and upset them...
...expected that Conant will defend his comments on private schools by pointing out that he objected partially on the grounds that public tax money goes "In one way or another" to private schools...
Conant is expected to defend himself against McCarthy's second objection by pointing out that the speech which is alleged to be his support of the Morgenthan plan was made before the war was over and the plan publicized...
Over the vast, silent crowd on Capitol Hill and through homes and offices across the land, the voice rang sharp & clear: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear . . . [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States-so help me God." Black-robed Chief Justice Vinson stepped back, and the new President of the U.S. stood alone...
...their moral lessons ("He thought that King Lear was about how fathers should be nice to their daughters," says Thornton), his wife read Yeats and Maeterlinck for their beauty. Mr. Wilder was always fearful for his children's spiritual safety, and was forever lecturing them on how to defend themselves against a wicked world. "Now, dear boy," he would say, twirling his amethyst watch fob, "even if you are at a bishop's table and you are served wine, I want you inconspicuously to turn down the glass." ("He meant 'conspicuously,' " Thornton smiles...