Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, 32, runs the show. "The Senators," says a Republican member of the committee, "don't have the slightest idea who is to be called, but we can read the witness lists in the newspapers. The witnesses are gangsters, and you can't defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators will be put on the stand and will make statements without any proof. These statements become part of the record, but often they are nothing more than the investigator's belief. There...
Ever since Poet Archibald MacLeish's version of the Biblical Book of Job, the verse-play J.B., opened on Broadway last December (TIME, Dec. 22), viewers and reviewers have been choosing up sides to attack and defend MacLeish's Biblicism or lack of it, his humanism or his sentimentality...
What made Meany sore was National City's August letter, which criticized what it termed the "abuses of organized labor's power," went on to defend right-to-work laws, and quoted more than a dozen economists to back its case. Hopping mad, union leaders first wanted to withdraw their funds from National City, then decided to let George do it-on banker's hours. Said Meany, before tweaking the bank for everything from monopoly to Communism: "A most unscholarly collection of myths and half-truths about the American labor movement...
Last year, the varsity upset a powerful Eli squad down at New Haven to take the Eastern League title. They defend this laurel now without the services of Dale Junta and Larry Sears,--first two singles men and the first doubles pair--who have both graduated. Yale, on the other hand, has its top six men back intact, and it will take another magnificent effort like last May's for Barnaby's team to overcome the New Haven powerhouse...
Three members of the Debate Council will argue the negative of the topic, "Resolved: That all military forces should be withdrawn from Central Europe." Another team will defend the affirmative at Princeton...