Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Press Club. There he accepted a bouquet and a buss from nine-year-old Emmi Mattesich, all dressed up in her best Austrian costume. In a serious mood, Figl told reporters: "We in central Europe today are the easternmost outpost of the free world and we are determined to defend this bastion. To achieve this we must rely upon the moral and material help of the free world . . . until we are again in possession of all the natural resources of our country. It is not our fault that we were robbed of them under the unfortunate Potsdam decisions...
Last week, up again before the Senate Agriculture Committee to defend his department's role in the whole mess, Brannan decided that the best defense was a strong offense. He said he was mad at the way "muscle men" of the committee "came into the offices of employees of my department, gave them a mental browbeating, dumped the contents of drawers on top of their desks, read their personal mail, and were otherwise obnoxious...
Asked to specify the language Holland had used, she said she couldn't think of anything in particular. Holland asserted he would be glad to defend himself in court, claiming he could produce about ten witnesses to testify that he had not blasphemed...
French Pride. Old and embittered, Gabriel Cognacq was too proud to defend himself. His revenge, before he died last year, was to rewrite his will, cutting off the Louvre without a single painting, and stipulating that the Cognacq collection be sold at public auction...
...more obligation to help them than it is to help some undergraduate group escape financial difficulties. Yet there is one vital service which the Dean's Office could perform with-out abandoning its traditional and proper aloofness. It should prepare a list of lawyers who would be willing to defend students booked on charges of disturbing the peace, much like the list of doctors the Hygiene Department keeps handy. Next time the paddy wagons come rolling into Central Square Square packed with Harvard undergraduates, there should not only be a bail-poster, but a list of lawyers as well...