Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Town's Victorian Parliament building, Malan's noisy Nationalists shouted for legislation to overrule the court, which had declared one of Malan's Jim Crow laws unconstitutional. The opposition vowed to defend the court, if necessary by force. "You are breakers of the law," cried Opposition Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss. "You will lead the country to revolution and anarchy...
...indictment) the charge is conspiring to advocate overthrowing the government. From the point of view of freedom of speech the distinction is absolutely essential. The Civil Liberties Union does not recognize any right to overthrow the government by force, or to conspire to do so. It does resolutely defend the right of any man to argue, or to "conspire" with others to argue, in favor of any proposition whatever, including the proposition that the government should be overthrown by force, unless it can be demonstrated that the manner and circumstances of his argument or "conspiracy" were such as to create...
...idea that the Germans are going to defend the democratic West, to sacrifice themselves for us, would be a deadly delusion," Shirer stated. He noted the alarming rise of neo-Nazi sentiment in Germany and declared that recent Russian proposals are more than a propaganda move. They represent a shift in Soviet policy, trying to prevent Germany from joining the West militarily...
...prevent possible loss. When one Wilbur F. Henderson of Conway, New Hampshire, donated nine large cases of longhand notes concerning bird migrations and weather changes over a period of 34 years, the notes were locked in the Cage for preservation. Patriotic blurbs and other notes from the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the papers of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, and a collection of photographs of archaeological items have also found security in the "Inferno" stacks. Poor-paper books and those in shabby condition are labelled "XP" and put in the Cage for purposes of preservation...
...hearings, he delighted in pricking such Administration witnesses as Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. Frequently, he provoked howls from the Foreign Offices across the world by his sharp, irascible outbursts. (Recent sample: "France must be told that she cannot rely upon the U.S. to defend her and to hand out large sums of money . . . France must do her duty...