Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's sailors defend their Greater Boston Championship this Monday against M.I.T., Northeastern, B.U., B.C., and Tufts. Jim Nathanson, Charlie Hoppin, and Tim Brown are the Crimson entrants...
With the cooperation of both national committees, the Forum will present Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.), and Katherine St. George (R-N.Y.) to hammer at the administration, and J. Vaughn Gary (D-Va), and Leo O'Brien (D-N.Y.) to defend the Fair Deal, and stress the solidarity of their party...
...perform price-cutting miracles. "Ever since Henry IV,* all governments have broken their teeth on this problem [of prices]. The only solution would be an abundance of goods and the restoration of free competition. But things are not that simple, because the customer does not know how to defend himself. On the contrary, he favors high prices...
...educated . . . were voicing their own defeatist skepticism about America; and listening to them in the months after the Korean intervention, one realized with dismay how little confidence there was among the forward-looking of our worthiness or our capacity to defend the freedom which we claimed as our heritage; and to rouse others to defend their freedom, if they had it, or to win it, if they lacked it, side by side with...
...that must have sometimes sounded idyllic or nationalistic, is but an extension and working out of ideas and insights of European thinkers-French, German, and especially English-and their Greek and Hebrew forebears . . . What a gross impertinence it would be if an American intellectual should actually ask Europeans to defend the democratic tradition without at the same time acknowledging that the free citizen is in large part no American gadget but Europe's greatest creation...