Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There can be no excuse for ... lessened effort, slower tempo, reduced goals and apathetic resignation . . . My responsibility for the military defense of the NATO nations of Europe is not qualified. I am not told to defend just parts of them and their peoples. Nor am I told that my responsibility is to become effective at some future date. I have it today...
...will burst into speech at machine-gun tempo. He can rage like a Shakespearean actor over an underling's blunder, yet he is also known for his gentle patience with misfits. He is widely regarded as a conservative, an enemy of much modern art, but he will cogently defend its vigor and experimentalism. Though he knows and likes his job as only a professional can, he has been heard to growl: "God, how I hate...
...radio-TV sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), and American Broadcasting Co. Said the Post: in his columns and on his radio-TV programs, Winchell has been engaged in "journalistic gangsterism . . . [He has] spread the impression that the Post and its editors are disloyal to the United States and support and defend the Communist Party and C.P. figures convicted of conspiracy and espionage." While its case begins the long journey through the courts, the Post plans to run another series ("Winchell Revisited") as a sequel to its first 24-part scorcher, which started the fight (TIME, Jan. 21). Said Winchell: "A year...
...times as much bomb tonnage to the enemy in a given period of time as can a carrier task group. ¶Carrier warfare is inefficient: a carrier task group can mount 450 fighting planes, but half of these must be kept overhead or on the decks, ready to defend the ships themselves. Available for on-target attack: 225 planes out of a $2.5 billion investment. Navy answer: a task group can move 300 miles overnight and fight some place else; a captured air base is no good...
Lattimore, too, is mistaken in trying to "defend himself in terms of today, instead of proving his loyalty...